Clarion 1979-03-09 Vol 54 No 17

Roscoe Howell and Kurt Christenson travelled to North Dakota
to capture the Feb. 26 eclipse on film.
`Coming down your way'
KABY males waves again
Vol. 54 No. 17 Bethel College St. Paul MN March 9, 1979
German suspension defeated, faculty rejects recommendations
by Paul A. Olsen
The faculty voted down a pro-posal
on Tuesday that would have
indefinitely suspended 300- and
400-level German courses, as well
as the offering of a German con-centration.
The controversial issue trans-formed
the usually docile faculty
meeting into a lively debate. It
was, according to Lynn Fauth,
"an old-fashioned faculty meet-ing."
Declining student interest preci-pitated
the proposal from the
dean's office. According to Dean
Brushaber, it is a common
priniciple in higher education to
closely examine any class with less
than 10 enrolled.
Dean Jessup said, "the essential
critierion in evaluating a class of-fering
is whether the students are
responding to it." Jessup said it is
bad stewardship of Bethel's funds
to continue a course with as small
a number of students as German
has had in the past.
The Academic Policies Com-mittee
maintained that since
enrollments have been low across
time and across the department
and since there has been a dearth
of graduates in German (three in
the last four years), there was not
enough demand to make a Ger-man
concentrtion economically
feasible.
The measure to suspend origi-nated
in the .dean's office and
received the support of the APC,
the department of languages and
literature, and Dr. Engebretsen,
teacher of German.
Because the enrollment in
upper-level German is low, and
because the present budget must
be cut by $100,000, it was not
possible to hire additional help .
by Mark Rentz
"Bethel College and Seminary
is worth $26,349,100. Personal
property (desks, chairs,
refrigerators, etc.) are valued at
$5,759,055," said Paul Drake,
direCtor of auxilary affairs.
This year's insurance premium
(for fire and liability alone) rose to
$63,000, which is $21,000 more
than last year.
The increase is due mainly to
the building additions. The high
premium comes with a $10,000
deductable per building.
Paul Drake explained that if a
townhouse, for example, had roof
leakage, Bethel would have to pay
for the first $10,000 of damage
regardless of whether or not the
damage exceeded the deductable
amount.
Bethel's liability insurance is
only for individuals outside of
Bethel. Bethel students are
covered by their own insurance, or
parents' insurance, and by a sup-plementary
medical plan provided
by Bethel for whatever the stu-dent's
own insurance does not
cover.
The college and seminary, the
buildings still being used on OC,
and FT are insured in various
Engebretsen felt that one per-son
cannot possibly offer a quality
program. Therefore, he said it
would be better to cut back on the
program rather than offer an in-ferior
one.
The APC concurred with his
evaluation and made the recom-mendation
to drop the concentra-tion
after lengthy discussion in an
open hearing on Feb. 27.
, Brushaber said he is committed
to language learning, but he has to
be realistic.
Regarding the question as to
whether a liberal arts college
should challenge students or
follow the flow of student de-mand,
Brushaber said the college
must serve the students and res-pond
to their needs and interests.
He did not see the dropping of
third- and fourth-year German as
erosion of the quality of education
at Bethel.
Brushaber said the money saved
would be used to improve the
Spanish and French programs,
which have strong enrollments,
and to finance the proposed
beginning Swedish courses.
Because the German courses
were not dropped and the money
was not saved, the addition of
Swedish will probably not, be im-plemented
until fall, 1980, depen-ding
on the Board of Regent's
decision.
The faculty decided that it
needed to give better support to
the German program and will
form an ad hoc committee to
work with Engebretsen.
In other business, the faculty
adopted the Random House style
guide as a standard for writing at
Bethel, approved the addition of
beginning Swedish, and added a
requirement for graduation in
which no one would recieve a
ways, and with different pre-miums.
FT is insured exclusively by
Continental Casualty, which
covered FT before Bethel bought
the apartment complex. The
premium of FT is $3,861.
Federal Insurance Co. insures
Bethel against fire and liability.
Boilers are insured with the Hart-ford
Co. Bethel's automobiles are
covered, as well as a workman's
compensation plan, by different
insurance agencies respectively.
Theft is not covered in the pre-sent
insurance policy on personal
items. However, all musical in-struments,
all audio visual equip-ment,
and ski equipment are in-sured.
Audio visual equipment is in-sured
collectively at $180,000.
Musical instruments are worth
$75,000.
The library building, complex
E, is valued at $4,100,000. The
equipment and personal property
in the library complex, including
the dining hall beneath it, are
valued at $2,700,000.
"Insurance is to cover
catastrophe, just in case. It's too
bad that we have to have it ," said
Paul Drake, "but that's the way it
is."
degree without taking at least 15
courses above the 100-level.
These three recommendations
from the APC were passed
unanimously. Five teachers,
however, requested to adress the
German issue.
John Piper argued that drop-ping
German would "signal the
capitulation of the liberal arts vi-sion."
Don Postema echoed Piper's
message and added that dropping
a course because of low enroll-ment
is an ad hoc justification and
by David Shelley
"It was just one, of those awe-inspiring
experiences in which all
we could say was, 'Go, God!"
In this way Barry "Roscoe"
Howell, former Bethel student,
described last week's total eclipse
which he journeyed to view, along
with Kurt Christenson, junior,
and Bethel professors Paul Taver-nier
and Craig Schmidt of the
chemistry department and R.A.
Carlsen of the physics depart-ment.
KABY will be back on the air
on a daily basis, starting on Mon-day,
March 12, at 6 a.m. on 560
AM radio.
• The format of KABY will in-clude
"contemporary Christian
easy rock format," according to
John Freeburg, program director
and operations manager.
The format will include news
broadcasts, including ABC news,
music by various Christian enter-tainers
and other programs.
Bob Spon will head the staff of
not justification based on principle
or theory.
Wayne Grudem said that Bethel
should not only be concerned with
the academic excellence of the
courses it offers but. also with the
academic excellence of its cur-riculum.
He said a liberal arts col-lege
could not be considered com-petant
without offering a German
concentration.
Don Larson appealed to a dif-ferent
concern. He said he was
afraid of endowing the APC with
Leaving on Saturday, Feb. 24,
the group had to drive 101/2 hours
to Minot, N.D. to see the eclipse
in totality.
Schmidt said the idea for the
trip came up last summer when he
was teaching astronomy and
Howell and Christenson were
photographing through his tele-scope.
Howell works for Brown
Photo and he and Christenson do
wedding photography.
Schmidt suggested that they get
together to shoot the eclipse, and
23 as general manager. Duey
Pearson will act as assistant pro-gram
director, Stu Soneson as
news director, and Paul Johnson
as sports director.
Janet Brown will be sales
manager, Sue Stone is in charge of
public relations and John Wood-side
will be chief engineer.
KABY will be transmitted on
new campus only. When KABY is
not on the air, WLOL FM will be
heard on 560 AM, so the trans-mitters
will be transmiting 24
hours a day.
the power to make such decisions
concerning curriculum. He said it
would "establish a precedent that
we (the faculty) would regret."
Rune Engebretsen then thanked
the faculty for its support, but
said the hard facts of the
economics cause him to have mix-ed
emotions on the issue. He said
though language belongs in a
liberal arts curriculum, the pro-gram
was not functioning proper-ly.
Consequently, Engebretsen
supported the proposal. n
they were joined by Schmidt's
wife, Carlsen, Tavernier and his
two children.
Monday morning the group set
up its equipment at about 9:30, an
hour before totality. "Minot is
kind of in a valley, so we went up
on a hill and set up in a church
parking lot," Schmidt said.
"As the eclipse time grew closer
everything began to look silvery.
The snow was more silvery than
white," Schmidt said.
"It wasn't like a hazy day or a
sunset," Howell added. "It gets
darker, but the sun is still shining
so you still see shadows and con-trast.
It has an eerie, mystical ap-pearance."
"It never did get as dark as I ex-pected,"
Schmidt said. "But we
saw some stars and planets that
you can't normally see because of
the sun. We saw Venus.
"I really wanted to see Mercury
because I hadn't seen it before,"
he said, "but I was so caught up in
the eclipse that I forgot to look."
Howell noted, "You hear
stories about how battles stopped
because an eclipse occurred, and if
you saw it you'd understand why.
It's a very spiritually moving ex-perience.
"There is something about wit-nessing
a totally natural event, in
which man had no part, that is
that beautiful," he added.
Schmidt said that the crowd
reflected the mood of the event.
"About 200 people were in that
same area watching," he said.
"As totality occurred everything
just grew silent.
"Totality lasted for about two
minutes and seven seconds," he
continued. "Then as the sun
broke through the other side
everyone cheered and
applauded."
The horizon, said Schmidt,
turned a beautiful pink during
totality. Roscoe, who also took a
movie of the changing horizon,
added that the temperature drop-
Ted about 30 degrees by totality.
Howell said that no filters were
needed to photograph the eclipse
during totality. "Yu have to use
them before and after, though,"
he said. "You know, the sun's
pretty bright."
Insurance policy clarified,
covers catastrophes only
Eclipse expedition moved by sight
Opinion
German saved: good
German as a concentration at Bethel was in danger.
The academic policy committee (APC) had proposed an indefinite
suspension of upper-level classes in German. But in last Tuesday's facul-ty
meeting, several faculty members voiced their concerns about the
damage this action might have on Bethel as a liberal arts college (see story
on page one).
We commend the faculty on its support of an essential part of a
liberal arts education—foreign language, and specifically, German.
We fear that student enrollment and the interest in a given area could
determine whether or not that program would be continued, as was the
case this time.
Discontinuing German as a major could have led Bethel to conform
to the pressures of society.
Bethel would then be leaning away from our ideal of a liberal arts col-lege,
one that should offer a variety of experiences to the student, with
important focus in the humanities and the arts and letters.
It was reassuring to see the faculty members from several different
departments—psychology, Biblical and theological studies, philosophy
and linguistics—support the continuation of the current German pro-gram.
We would encourage students to examine their own definition of a
liberal arts education. Student interest, and unfortunately, numbers, are
what keep a program alive.
If our view of liberal arts does not include foreign language, then we
are in danger of becoming ethnocentric.
As Christians, we should want to learn more about the people in the
world, and one major way to do this is to learn a foreign language.
Foreign language training is also a good preparation for the mission-bound
student.
Although we commend the faculty on its,support of the continuation
of the current German program, we would also caution faculty members
not to simply pay lip service to the German department, but to en-courage
students in their departments to take a foreign language.
Foreign languages would seem most important for musk, Bible and
linguistic majors.
As many faculty members realize, a one-man department is not ideal
for the student or the teacher. Currently, all the foreign languages are
one-man (or woman) departments.
We hope that the administration would look into possibilities of ex-panding
the programs with additional faculty members, regardless of
enrollment figures.
the Soapbox
"Fudge," "Shucks," ideal, not realistic
Dear editor:
I should like to respond to Ran-dy's
(Krussow) letter regarding the
showing of the film, "All the
President's Men."
I share his sense of deep offense
at the language in the film, both
the vulgar and the profane or
blasphemous. Hopefully, all of us
will be ever deeply offended by
dishonor shown to our Father and
to our Savior.
I. should, however, like to
reflect on Randy's conclusion that
the film should not have been
shown in our chapel-gymnasium.
One of the most often repeated
criticisms about Bethel education
is our isolation from the "real
world." The film portrayed not
only the "uglies" of the language
of the worldling but the "uglies"
of his manner of living and think-ing
as well.
What more realistic contact
might one desire with the cynicism
of journalists (redeemed,
perhaps,by their quest for the
truth), or the gross ego-centeredness
of politicians at their
low-level worst?
I heard more than enough rude
"yukking-it-up" by some of our
audience throughout the film.
Could we solemnly contemplate
the meaning of being in the world
but not of it? (Was the film shown
for such reflection or for pure
entertainment?)
As our ears were offended by
blasphemy and vulgarity, did we
think with compassion about the
worldlings depicted in the film
and then transfer that feeling of
compassion to worldlings about
us who know not redemption and
the empowerment of the Spirit?
Or did we long to have the evil
totally removed from our environ-ment
and resolve never to live out-side
the context of a Christian
community or be employed where
ugly people use ugly language?
Were we so offended by the
language of the film that we miss-ed
the uglies being portrayed and
therefore overlooked the possibili-ty
of God using such a film to call
us to a prophetic witness to such a
world.
Offended as I was by vulgarity
and profanity, I reflected back to
some recent chapel an-nouncements.
Were not my ears
and spirit more offended by the
"Have fun in the Son" induce-ment
to spend spring break in
Florida?—"Have fun in the Son"
as I contemplate His suffering,
crucifixion and death for my sins?
Were not my ears and spirit
more offended by the juxtaposi-tion
of two announcements: "We
may have to abandon our support
of several Haitian orphans
because only'ten or twelve signed
up for 'bowl of rice,' " -followed
by "Sign up now for a summer
cruise in the Caribbean area (Haiti
is down there somewhere!) for six
hundred plus dollars?"
Dear editor,
When I read the letter to the
editor (March 2) concerning the
showing of "All the President's
Men" in the Bethel gymnasium, I
became very agitated, for it seems
as if a great number of students
ess
Are my eyes. and spirit more
wounded daily by the filth and
rubbish that is seen in every cor-ridor,
in book cubby-holes, under
furniture, in planters (!) than by
any of the corruption I saw in the
film?
I'm wondering...One expects
better of those who are "in
Christ." Ugly, coarse, offensive
language is part of that "real"
world "out there." Will we have
exposure only to that which por-trays
the "niceness" of our
world?
Sincerely,
Roy Dalton,
Professor of History
Dear editor,
After reading last week's
Clarion and a number of articles
posted on the Beef Board, I have
become disturbed about the way
the Clarion has begun to support
and highlight hypocritical at-titudes
concerning the community
of Bethel and the Student Senate.
cont. on page 3
have come to Bethel to escape the
outside world.
They treat this "Christian cam-pus"
as if it were a monastery. It
hurts me also—as it did Mr.
Krussow—to hear God's name
taken in vain, but that was not the
avowed purpose of the film.
"All the President's Men" was
a re-enactment of the scandal that
shook America and how two
Washington Post reporters un-covered
it. During the process of
investigating Watergate, the
reporters and other characters
used language that is abhorrent to
us, but perfectly natural to them.
I ask you: Wouldn't the movie
lose its magnificent air of reality if
the characters were heafd to say,
"Fudge," "Shucks," or "Gosh
Darn It?"
I think it is a narrow mind that
can't overcome worldly mani-festations,
such as swearing, to see
the true value of the artwork. As
Mr. Krussow freely stated, "I
must admit that it (the movie) was
enlightening..."
Personally, I get upset with peo-ple
who try to enact rules that I
did not pledge to follow. There-fore,
I resent the implication that
the showing and viewing of a
movie such as "All the President 's
Men" is against Christianity.
Walt Disney movies are great,
but not all the time! I prefer a lit-tle
reality in a movie, especially
when it has a meaningful plot and
is as informative as this movie
was.
I would suggest that more
Bethelites get used to reality.
Otherwise, they will be totally un-prepared
for the real world, after
spending four years in the ideal at-mosphere
which Bethel possesses.
Sincerely yours,
Jim Gaylord
Isolation won't help profanity, u
Critics, sarcasm CILLIR101111
not appreciated
Vol. 54 No. 17 March 9, 1979
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Zeke's Zetesis
Navel fantasies plague sleepy columnist
by Rick Chapman
"Sunday afternoon, a story to
write but no ideas," I groaned to
myself as I sat both bored and
perplexed in the confining at-mosphere
of the LRC.
I thought for a moment,
wishing that my tired mind would
soon explode with insight.
But then a comforting sight
took my attention. I saw a soft
mattress-like foamy green chair ly-ing
vacant against the wall.
It was then that I realized the
true nature of my weariness. In
one quick movement I leapt into
the chair's comforting grasp. I
thrust my head back into an ocean
of soft mush foam and felt my
eyes close effortlessly.
"Heck, I've never let David
down before and I deserve a
break. The worst thing that could
happen...well I might lose my job,
but then I'll be free."
My mind was teased by
rebellious thoughts for a time and
then it relaxed in thoughtlessness.
Indeed it was the Sabbath— what
else could I do but be biblical?
"Wake up Zeke, you have work
to do!"
Critics cont. from page 2
The Senate's iiurpose is to
enable students who choose to
become involved in community
issues that effect the quality of the
student body. Unconstructive
criticism of the Senate and the in-volvement
of the student body
seems to me to be a useless and in-effective
manner of improving our
attitude toward the Senate.
By sarcastically pointing out the
fact the gtudent election is coming
is an irresponsible way of inform-ing
our community of such news.
Our responsibility as communi-ty
members is to support and
challenge the ideals of the Senate.
By propagating mockery and
negative attitudes toward the
Senate and the community it
seems to me to hinder the hope
that things can be better.
As Christians we all have the
freedom to support and be involv-ed
in the community. We also
have the choice to sit back and be
an "armchair" critic.
To those who criticize our
apathy and ineffectiveness of the
community, please be responsible
enough not to judge and condemn
unless you are willing to get out of
your chair and try to change
things you deem appropriate.
Sincerely,
Daniel Lancette
Immediately after hearing this
strange and disturbing voice, I
sensed the shaking of a slight
earthquake. "Who are you?"
"I'm your green mattress you
dummy. Now you better start
writing!"
"Now, forget it. I'm too tired
and I'm dry of ideas."
"C'mon, women would make a
great topic."
"Impossible—that's too con-fusing
and it would take many col-umns
to complete."
"Please do it anyway, the sub-ject
makes me sputter and
cough...sometimes I roll over on
my side and I lose control, and my
heart beats so wildly that it all but
tears gaping holes in my foam..."
"Calm down you old bag! I'm
crazy enough just believing I can
talk with you. At least give me an
idea now that you have awakened
me."
"Hmmm...how about a story
called 'Great Navel Battles of Our
Time.' "
"Everyone is thinking about
Spring Break and no one wants to
read history."
"But you've got the wrong
idea! I mean the dynamics of "in-nies"
and "outies"...Florida...
Daytona...bare bellies...Sunkist
oranges, and navels galore!"
"Talk about navel battles;
"Midway" will have a whole new
meaning!"
"Maybe you'll start an exciting
Dear editor,
The Bethel Student Senate
sponsored five senators to go to
the national convention of the
American Association of Evan-gelical
Students in Orlando, Fl.
These five senate representatives,
Tannie Woods, Jim Torgerson,
Caryl Brown, Phil Thompson,
and Cheryl Thomas, will be
representing the beliefs and views
of the Bethel community.
But along with the represent-ation
that the student body re-ceives,
the student body will also
gain important information on
problems that Bethel faces right
now. Through research, our
representatives can put together a
list of alternatives that Bethel can
and navel fad. We'll be singing
"How deep is your navel?" and
reading such works as Harold Lint
Sell's "Battle of the Navels."
Philosophers might even con-template
the ideal form of navel"
"I'm sorry but I think I must
veto that one as well. It'd never
get me the Pulitzer Prize..."
"But it could earn you the
honorable commendation..."
"Yes?"
"A greenie weenie from the
Wittenburg Door!"
"Thanks for your profound in-spiration"
I muttered sarcastical-ly.
I threw my head back again
and closed my eyelids. My mind
was still in oblivion. I wrestled
with its emptiness, but only
became more frustrated, and so I
slept again.
When I woke from my nap I
looked at my watch to see how
much time remained. "I'm in ter-rible
shape," I mused. "No ideas
for a story and now I'm talking to
green chairs in the LRC!"
Right then the explosion went
off and I began to write,
"nominees for the green dog at
Bethel College:"
Those who ask "Am I really an
air head?"
Those who "borrow" because
"we have all things in common."
Those who criticize everything
but never solve anything.
Those who fall asleep while
writing columns.
Those who go to Florida for
initiate, as a whole, to solves areas
that are not working up to par.
You might say that we are learn-ing
from others' mistakes. This is
a major attribute of the AAES
program.
But yet there is another at-tribute
of having representatives
at the national convention. We
can learn of programs that other
evangelical colleges have in-stituted
and start them at Bethel to
better serve the student body. The
Chautauqua Free University Pro-gram
and the Student Directory
are two prime examples of the
benefits that AAES has, for it was
at last year's convention that
Bethel learned of these programs
through the AAES data bank.
break but leave their faith in Min-nesota.
Those who scribble pseudo-intellectualisms
on the bathroom
stalls.
Those who always sign up for
the prayer chapel, but never come.
Those who immediately deposit
flyers on world hunger in the trash
and scowl "I'm tired of junk
mail!"
Those who put $2.50 worth of
yogurt in a 40 cent cup.
I hurried up to the office, paper
in hand. When I arrived I flung
open the door. They were waiting.
"What's this one about?"
"Nothing special, just a sleepy
To the editor:
Rob Haglund's elaboration in
IM out of bounds has raised the
appeal of your IM coverage to a
readable level, but we have a sug-gestion:
It is far more interesting to read
about unusual events than or-dinary
ones. For example, the last
colurim mentioned that B-league
team Go-for-Baroque was
defeated (as usual) rather soundly.
That's not news. That's as com-mon
as a progress report on the
new dorms. The real news was we
won by three points in overtime
the previous Tuesday.
columnist who carries on con-versation
with foam green
chairs."
They all chuckled simultaneous-ly,
"You've been dreaming. Let's
see it."
How right they were. I quickly
turned and walked out. Even if I
did get the coveted green one I
might not lose my job after all.
And one more note. Baroque
music was from about 1600 to
1750, certainly not to be confused
with anything medieval. Ap-parently
Mr. Haglund spends
more time on the basketball court
than he does choosing his ter-minology
(with all due respect to
the IM reporter).
Don't print boring stuff about a
team that misses almost every time
it Schutz. And if you can't Handel
that don't expect us to take it
Bach.
With tongue in cheek,
Go-for-Baroque
R.A. Carlsen, Roscoe Howell, Kurt Christenson, Craig Schmidt
and Paul Tavernier set up in Minot, N.D. to watch the eclipse
Students to attend AAES (story on page 1).
togain educational insights Haglund's IM writing lacking,
Go-for-Baroque team claims
We only hope that this year's
convention will bring forth the
results that it has in the past, for
Bethel's involvement in this
worthwhile organization has paid
off in the past. We, along with the
rest of the senate, look forward to
the report that these Bethel
representatives have to give the
student body.
Sincerely,
Steven Hoswell,
Susan E. Stone
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SPAN offers intensive study abroad, opportunities
by Betty Logan
Applications for summer, 1980
SPAN studies have just come out.
This year SPAN offers students
an opportunity to spend two mon-ths
in Hungary, Bolivia, Malta, or
France.
SPAN, which stands for Stu-dent
Project for Amity Among
Nations, is a unique academic
program which gives students a
chance to live in another country
and work on a study project of
their choice.
Although only two months are
spent in the foreign nation, the
SPAN program runs for two
years.
For one year prior to traveling
to the chosen country, students
prepare with studies of the nation,
and in many cases, language
study. The year following the
summer experienc is when
SPANers work the promotional
end of SPAN by speaking to
various groups and assisting new
members.
The project a student chooses is
wide open to personal preference
and innovations. The student
develops his project during his
year of preparation and arranges
for the contacts or data he will
need to work with, once in the na-tion.
Almost any imaginable field of
study can be incorporated into the
SPAN program. The project ex-perience
culminates in a major
paper written after returning
home.
With one year of preparation,
which often includes language
study, SPAN is a very well
organized program which pro-vides
an intensive study experience
of another country.
"It is probably the most solid
academically of the international
programs we have available," says
Dr. Phil Carlson, Bethel's SPAN
coordinator.
For all the time and travel in-volved
in SPAN summers, the ex-penses
are quite reasonable. Of
the four programs offered in
1980, the most expensive runs
$1,500 maximum, while the least
expensive program is only $800.
Credit for classes and the pro-ject
is given through the Univer-sity
of Minnesota. Credit costs are
$240 (based on 1979 tuition costs),
which transfer to Bethel as two to
four credits, depending on the
amount of language classes taken
in preparation.
Scholarships and loans are
available to students with finan-cial
need.
Scholarships are based on the
individuals realistic financial
need, and are offered up to the
amount of round-trip transporta-tion.
Loans are available for the
in-country expenses, with a max-imum
of $300 offered.
While in the country, each stu-dent
is allowed to travel freely, in
groups or alone, to work on his
project. The accompanying pro-fessor
usually stays in a central
locale to coordinate students'
travel and study, and to be a
resource for the students.
Each professor leading a SPAN
group has lived or studied in the
country he takes the group to. Dr.
Art Lewis, professor of Old Testa-ment,
led a SPAN group to Por-tugal,
where he was in missions
work several years ago.
Bethel is one of the 14 colleges
which belong to SPAN. Dr.
Carlson urges students to take ad-vantage
of the program, and to
by Steve Hoswell
and Sue Stone
Why are we running for these
positions?
We feel that the experience we
both have on Senate and student
faculty committees, which is ex-tensive,
has given us a broad and
deep understanding of the
mechanics of the Student Senate.
It is from this understanding
that effective representation can
take place.
We believe there is no substitute
for experience in such important
offices: the positions of represent-ing
the student body to various
groups, organizations, and in-dividuals.
But we feel that the need for en-thusiasm
is just as great as exper-ience.
Our enthusiasm is evident
in our attitude toward and our
participation in Senate.
Our record on legislation and
the way we have voted for student
services is open for the student
body to see. We encourage
students to compare: compare ef-fectiveness
of all the candidates.
What are the major issues and
what are our goals?
One area we feel is a major issue
is that of the bookstore's buy-back
policy at the end of each
semester.
We have done some extensive
research and we propose a pro-gram
for a student-run buy-back
program in which students sell
their used text books to other
students directly.
apply early because the programs
are almost always full by applica-tion
deadlines.
Applications for the 1980
SPAN program are now available,
offering students the opportunity
to study in Bolivia, Hungary,
Malta, or France. See Dr. Phil
Carlson, in AC 201 for informa-tion
and applications.
This would be most profitable
for the student selling the text
books, and the buyer would get a
better price than he is using the
present system.
This system has been successful
at Taylor Unversity and Norman-dale
College, two colleges that we
have corresponded with in
developing this plan.
We believe that Senate can help
finance improvement of in-tramural
sports equipment. We
would push for funding of new
equipment to replace worn out or
out-dated equipment, such as
basketballs, volleyballs, and rac-quetballs.
We would check into the feasi-bility
of buying equipment such as
downhill skis and other winter
sports gear. We would work di-rectly
with the IM staff to deter-mine
the exact need.
We are avid supporters of the
reinstatement of Bethel's radio
station, KABY. Through legisla-tion
and personal commitment,
we have shown our support and
will continue to work with the
staff and advisors to make KABY
a success.
Other areas of concern include
a student directory (like the recent
one this year) to be included in the
_Roster, and a security system in
the library to help insure less
theft.
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Hoswell, Stone state
platform for elections
Tumbler Keith Johnson (upper right) will star in "Moods" at 8 tonight in the gymnasium. Kurt
Pegors (left) is running lights for the production. Visiting astronomy prof to lecture on
aotdination convetsation life on other worlds, end of universe
Match promise "Moods," music, fools' party
by Rob and Cheryl
Can you believe it?! Next week
at this time, spring break will be
upon us! But, to keep you enter-tained
until then...
Tonight, "MOODS" will be
presented in the gym. It will be a
great evening of song and dance,
gymnastics, music from "The
Wiz," and drama, integrated into
a show you won't want to miss.
"MOODS" is an annual tradition
at Bethel and this year's produc-tion
promises to be one of the best
ever.
Tomorrow night, we're invited
to a coffeehouse at Northwestern.
It lasts from 7 - 10 p.m. in the
Nazareth Chapel. There will be
refreshments (peanuts, popcorn,
etc.) and music. It's a good chance
to meet some new people, visit
with friends, take a study break,
or whatever. Let's show them we
appreciate their invitation by hav-ing
a big turnout!
Last, but certainly not least for
this month will be our April
Fool's Party on the 30th. If you
like carnivals, prizes, food,
games, and fun, you'll love our
party. And you may be in for
some surprises!! Look for more
info after Spring Break.
Whether you're traveling to
Florida or Colorado or South St.
Paul, have a great time over break
and God be with you!!
Dr. Owen J. Gingerich, distin-guished
professor of astronomy
and of the history of science at
Harvard University and
astrophysicist of the Smithsonian
Observatory in Cambridge,
Mass., will speak in convocation
next Thursday and Friday, March
15 and 16.
In his Thursday lecture—"Will
the Universe end with a Bang or a
Whimper?"—Professor
Gingerich will expound theories of
galaxies continuing their headlong
dash forever or slowing to a stop
and retreating into a final fiery
cataclysm.
At 7:30 p.m. Thursday he will
speak on "Copernicus, Tycho,
and Master Witt: A Scholarly
Detective Story," giving a new
version of the early reception of
Copernican astronomy, relating
the demise of crystalline celestial
spheres to a new awareness of
physical reasoning through the
work of Tycho, Kepler, and the
mysterious Paul Wittich in the
16th century astronomical scene.
Friday, Gingerich will discuss
"Is there Life on Other Worlds?"
—reviewing the requirements for
habitable environments and
mechanism for life beyond the
earth.
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Becky and Scott voice goals
by Scott Johnson
and Becky Dye
After reviewing the constitu-tional
requirements of the
Association President and Vice
President, we think the positions
demand enthusiasm and innova-tion
- something we can offer.
The President must provide a
dynamic approach to com-municating
student opinion and
proposals to the Bethel ad-ministration
and Board of
Regents.
It is also his duty to inform
students as to proposed admini-strative
policies and decisions.
The President ,executes all
Senate legislation; he reviews and
appoints students to student/-
faculty committees and selects the
Association's treasurer, secretary
and Campus Coordinators.
The Vice President presides
over the Association's Senate. He
is the chairperson responsible for
the functioning of the Com-munications
Board. The Vice
President supportively im-plements
the team's proposed
platform.
We feel qualified to effectively
assume these positions; qualified
not because of our Senate exper-ience,
but rather because of our
creative style of leadership.
If you are impressed by titles of
previously held leadership posi-tions,
we have those too!
What is it that motivates us to
run? It's the challenge of making
Senate a representative, concerned
functioning body. We're excited
about getting you excited. It's the
experience of responsible leader-ship.
The knowledge gained could be
applied to our prospective voca-tions.
An effective team must have
positive, reachable goals which
will benefit student life. We would
like Senate to accomplish three
goals in the next year.
First, we want to serve as an ef-fective
vehicle to communicate be-tween
students and administra-tion.
We must build the credibility of
the Student Senate by being a
responsible, informed voice, "a
voice that listens" and does not
neglect taking action.
To help motivate Senators to be
better representatives of students
we suggest a $100 scholarship be
awarded each semester to one,
chosen by the Senate as being the
Scott Johnson and Becky Dye
most concerned, active Senator.
It is one of the primary func-tions
of the President and Vice
President to motivate the
Senators. We will, therefore, ap-propriate
the scholarships from
our stipends.
We, as an executive staff will
work to develop a student-faculty-administrative
group which will
primarily pool ideas and discuss
tension between the three in-dividual
groups.
This would basically be a
maintenance and exchange group.
Both faculty and administration
have already shown interest in
such a group as this.
Senate and the executive staff
will be greatly encouraged to in-form
students of upcoming ad-ministrative
policy decisions in
order that we organize and present
student opinion before final ac-tion
has been taken.
Our second major goal will be
the implementation of specific
programs designed to better stu-dent
life.
There is presently a need to
research student expenditures out-side
of tuition (ie. bookstore, ex-penses,
food costs, etcetera). We
propose two realistic programs
which will aid the student in these
areas.
First, we have developed a
detailed procedure for a student-run
"book exchange." This pro-gram
could alleviate the money
loss which results by using the
"bookstore exchange service."
The idea is not to encourage
students to sell their books but
rather to provide a reasonable ser-vice
if one decides to do so!
Secondly, we are researching
the possibility of providing a
student-run "food co-op" at our
off-campus housing, (Fountain
Terrace and apartments to be pur-chased
in the near future).
We believe these programs will
convenience and aid students with
their personal expenses.
It is our opinion that no in-dividual
student service should be
engaged in "profit-making."
Especially when that profit is
routed back into the general ex-pense
fund.
For example, the student who
uses the food service regularly
should not be subsidizing general
expenses of the student who does
not use the food service.
Therefore, we see a need to
research all student services and
their financial practices.
The Senate has a working
budget of over $5,000. (after fun-ding
Clarion, Campus Coor-dinators,
KABY, Roster,
Passages, etcetera). We believe
some of this money has been
poorly spent in the past.
Last year approximately 25 per
cent of the working budget was
appropriated to American
Association of Evangelical
Students (AAES) membership
and Convention fees.
One appropriation of $910 was
recently made for two executive
board members and three senators
to attend a convention in Florida.
This was "all-expense" paid by
student funds.
We suggest continued support
of AAES, however, we do not
think it necessary to fully finance
five representatives but one or two
effective representatives.
Without heavy financial in-volvement
in AAES more of the
student money would be freed for
general student use.
To give individual students ac-cess
to these funds we propose
that a "mini-grant" program be
instituted in the budget; small
monetary grants which would be
available to all students.
"Mini-grants" could be alotted
to students seeking financial aid
for research projects, (outside of
class) and creative projects which
will benefit the entire student
body.
These are only a few examples
of how "mini-grants" could be
used.
Another project already im-plemented
to better student life,
but in need of upgrading, is the
Roster.
We suggest quicker editing and
printing, to ensure a more speedy
delivery to the students. This
could be accomplished by issuing
demanding deadlines and specific
quality guarantees.
We also propose the combining
of the Roster and the recent
publication, the student directory.
This would aid and convenience
the student.
Our third major goal is to
educate and provide student
outlets regarding Christian
responsibility outside of Bethel.
We would encourage the
Clarion to deal with Christian
concerns outside of our communi-ty
(i.e. world hunger, human
rights, religious oppression,
etcetera). This would help to make
students aware of Christian con-cerns
around the world.
As an executive board we will
encourage Senators and students
to initiate chapters of major world
organization (i.e. Bread for the
World, Amnesty International,
etcetera) thus becoming active
working groups within Bethel.
We would also initiate and
sponsor programs such as "Vote
`78" to give students the oppor-tunity
to get involved in national
politics decision making.
These three major goals have
resulted from our interaction with
faculty, students and administra-tion.
They are realistic and
positive goals, which will aid
students and make good use of
Senate's potential and their time.
We also feel that since upper-classmen
will be living in town-houses
next year, Senate should
help students voice feelings con-cerning
rules that effect those who
live there.
What changes would we like to
see in Senate next year?
We would like to see a number
of changes in the structure of
Senate. Three areas that we would
like • to see change include the
Public Action Committee (PAC),
elections for transfers, and in-volvement
in the national prayer
breakfast.
Changes of PAC we would like
to implement include concerns for
the less fortunate in the St. Paul
area. PAC has done an admirable
job in its work with the Haitian
orphans and the Filipino or-phanage,
but we feel we can help
in our own area as well.
Suggested areas of service in-clude
food drives, old clothing
collections and a program in
which students may offer various
services (including repair jobs,
garden work, running errands) for
the aged or handicapped.
Fall elections for transfers
would be the only way transfers
could be represented in Senate.
We feel it is important that this
segment of the student body has a
voice in Senate.
Instead of elections for five
freshman senators each fall, we
would propose that four freshmen
and one transfer be elected.
We believe that Bethel can gain
valuable information and educa-tion
in involvement in the Na-tional
Prayer Breakfast move-ment.
It is probable that Bethel
could obtain speakers for con-vocation
on government that
would benefit the entire student
body.
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John W. Ivance, Jr.
John G. Chisholm
Russel Akre
Patrick J. Repp
It is important that we interact
with fellow Christian evangelicals
that attend not only Christian col-leges
but also those in state
schools across the U.S.
What experience qualifies us for
these positions?
Steven has served full terms as
freshman senator and sophomore
senator, and is currently serving
assenator at large.
He has served as the rules and
finance committee chairman and
parliamentarian. He has served on
the public relations committee and
has also been a member of PAC.
• Steve has been a member of the
communications board, the
judiciary committee, chapel and
spiritual life committee and the
college relations committee.
Along with these services at
Bethel, Steve has also been involv-ed
in the Baptist General Con-ference.
He has served as presi-dent
of the Rocky Mountain
District CYF and was also the act-ing
secretary, of the president's
meeting held during Founder's
Week of 1976.
Other Bethel activities include
his role as business manager of
male chorus this year.
Sue has served two full terms as
freshman senator and sophomore
senator.
After serving on the special pro-jects
committee her freshman
year, she was appointed to be
chairperson of the special projects
committee. She has also been a
member of the PAC.
Sue has served the past two
years on the Bethel on-site com-mittee
and is also on the housing
committee. She has been a
representative to the American
Association of Evangelical
Students (AAES).
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TWIN CITIES
EVENTS CALENDAR
Theatre:
March 9-31 USA
Actors Theatre of St. Paul
March 12-14
Fionnula Flanagan as "James Joyce's
Women" Guthrie
March 16-18 The Runner Stumbles
Theatre in the Round
Exhibits:
Continuing through
March 10 Cornett/Luckman/Milder
Art Latitude Gallery
Continuing through
March 11 American Photography Since 1960
Walker Art Center
Music/Dance:
March 9
March 10
March 16
The Passion According to St. Matthew
Minnesota Opera Company
O'Shaughnessy Auditorium, St. Cathrine
Ameling/Davis
Dvorak, Berlioz, Lambrecht, Haydn
O'Shaughnessy Auditorium, St. Cathrine
Russian Festival
Northrop Dance Season
Northrop Auditorium
Gallery shows art
painted by Rudquist
Painter/printer Jerry Rudquist, professor of art at Macalester, is displaying his work in the
Bethel gallery during March.
by Terri Sue Hanson
Merold Westphal, in a chapel
address on Feb. 21, spoke about
"legal evil." The "legal evil" as
he saw it was found in the interna-tional
trade systems. It was the
system (free trade) that cheated
out poor countries and made the
rich countries richer. So, in effect,
the evil was legal.
Gerald Brock, associate pro-fessor
of economics, gave the
Clarion an economist's reaction to
the assertion. Basically, Brock
said he had two problems with
Westphal's argument.
"First of all," he said, "the
concept of evil needs to have a
clear and precise definition when
it is applied to anything outside of
the biblical framework. It was dif-ficult
for me to understand in
what sense the system was evil. I
do not disagree that there may be
evil within the system, but I want
to know just exactly what con_ -
cepts are evil."
by Becky Miller
A spring flood is coming soon,
only it's not an ordinary spring
flood. The "Spring Flood In-dividual
Events Tournament" will
be held at Mankato University
March 9 and 10. Bethel will ten-tatively
be sending four par-ticipators,
Ira King, Pam
Linamen, Peter Nelson, and
Jolene Brask.
"I really enjoy the fellowship
on the way to the tour-naments—
it's a blast," said
sophomore Pam Linamen. Pam
has attended every individual
events tournament held during the
last seven months. She is planning
"Secondly," Brock continued,
"Westphal asserted that the terms
of trade tend to move against the
less developed countries. This is
not entirely true. Raw materials
fluctuate in price extensively. The
prices rise or decline with regard
to manufactured goods. Westphal
said that it is because of evil con-trol
that the price of raw materials
is falling. Actually, however, the
prices don't decline at all over a
long period of time."
Westphal asserted that the
international trade system is evil
because it takes food from a less
developed country and gives it to a
more developed country.
Brock responded by saying, "Is
that evil? The less developed
countries have the opportunity
not to trade. The undeveloped
countries must see some gain from
trading, or they wouldn't partic-ipate.
"No one is forcing them to
trade, they do it willingly. If these
countries see some benefit from
on entering three of the twelve
events offered.
Pam has placed third in
rhetorical criticism and has also
made finals a few times.
She added that being in the
various speech tournaments over
the past year has expanded her
thinking about other people and
their way of doing something in a
certain event.
There is one more upcoming
event designed eNclusively for the
Bethel community. The date for
the All Bethel Speech Tournament
has been set for April 10. See Rod
Broding from the speech-com-munications
department for
details.
by Hellen Manning
Jerry Rudquist, painter/print-er,
is now exhibiting his work at
the Fine Arts Gallery. Currently,
Rudquist is professor of art at
Macalester.
"Rudquist's work demonstrates
humor and majesty," said Dale
Johnson, associate professor of
art. "His painting," Johnson con-tinued,
"displays a type of inner
light."
"He gets you thinking about
spatial relationships," Johnson
said. "And his color orchestration
quality is important in translating
the drawing to the painting."
All of the works in the gallery
are dimensionally small with the
exception of "Green Valley Win-dow,"
which is on loan from Hen-nepin
County Medical Center.
simplistic solution. What our
system lacks is Christian com-passion.
"We should see the wealth of
the U.S. as a comparatively recent
phenomenon," said Brock, "back
200 years ago Europe, the U.S.
and Japan were poor. The world
at large was poor. The thing is, the
U.S. and other developed coun-tries
have pulled out of the pover-ty.
"The poor countries aren't get-ting
poorer. Instead, some poor
countries, like the U.S., have
become rich. Because of that," he
continued, "there is extreme un-equality."
"We are indebted to Suzanne
Kohn for collecting the pieces for
the exhibit," said Johnson. As his
dealer, Kohn was responsible for
securing the works for the exhibit.
Rudquist has both a B.F.A. and
a M.F.A. in painting. In addition
to his renown as a painter, he is
nationally acclaimed for his color
lithographic prints.
Stewart Luckman, associate
professor of art and department
chairman, studied with Rudquist
at Macalester. Johnson was
previously acquainted with Rud-quist
from working in an adjoin-ing
studio with him.
Rudquist has had major one-man
exhibitiods at both the Min-neapolis
Institute of Arts and the
Walker Art Center. His painting
has been influential to artists in
the American midwest .
Rudquist's paintings will be at
Bethel during March. Students are
encouraged to visit the gallery be-tween
8 a.m. and 10 p.m., Mon-day
through Friday.
Male Chorus
journeys east
for spring tour
by Patti Backlund
With one suitcase apiece, 42
male chorus members will prepare
to board an eastbound bus for
their annual tour, March 16
through 27.
The tour will consist of 15 con-certs
in Wisconsin, Illinois, In-diana,
Ohio, New York, Penn-sylvania
and Iowa. The chorus
will travel during the day and give
concerts each night. Their first
Sunday will be extra busy as they
give three separate concerts in the
Chicago area.
The program includes a variety
of music including sacred classics,
hymn arrangements and negro
spirituals. Selections include
Brahms' "Psalm 13 (Opus 27),"
"I Hear a Voice A-Prayin" and
"Ev'rytime I Feel the Spirit."
"If My People," a song per-formed
for four consecutive
years, will also be included, at the
members' request.
Each night of the tour, the male
chorus members stay in homes,
arranged through the churches
they visit.
"The main emphasis on our
ministry is the outreach and
fellowship we have with the peo-ple
we meet," said choir member
Steve Hoswell.
Rick Glasow, male chorus
chaplain, is organizing a prayer re-quest
calendar, enabling the
chorus members to remember the
needs of the people they come in
contact with. A correspondence
schedule will be set up to continue
prayer relationships.
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the trade then we need some
definition of why it is evil to con-tinue."
Brock did not maintain that
everything was fine with the inter-national
trade system. "The prob-lem
is broader than just the trade
system," he said. "The total
worldwide distribution of income
is unequal, and a free market
(such as ours) will not equalize it.
"What we need," he said, "is a
welfare system between countries.
There should be more redistribu-tion
from countries like the U.S.
to those countries with less goods.
In theory that is what should hap-pen,
but practically there is no
Mankato hosts tourney,
four to compete in speech
Brock refutes Westphal's 'legal evil'
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by Phoebe Morgan
"My roomate woke me up one
morning and said, 'Sue, let's go
around the world.' I didn't have
to think for more than a second
before I simply replied, 'O.K.'
"That daywe started to watch a
dream come true." So began a
transcontinental cruise for Sue
deWeerdt and Lois Kruger, two
former Bethel students (1975-77).
Their first step was to buy a
world map and plot their course.
The girls made most of their deci-sions
purely by impulse, picking
countries and cities with the blind-fold
method—closing their eyes
and randomly pointing to places
on the map.
"We didn't know the first thing
about going around the world,"
Sue laughed. "I knew I wanted to
see Bolivia because I liked Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid so
much."
Sue quit school in December,
1977 and started working two jobs
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Omega league also saw some ex-citing
action. In what un-officially
is an Omega league record for
most points scored by two foot-ball
players, Steve Fischer and
Dave Moberg combined for 42
pts. (22 for Steve, 20 for Dave) as
True Grit edged Ad Nauseum
81-47.
The most exciting game of the
week was probably the Soccer
Stuffers' 43-39 OT win over the
Glass Menagerie. Down by eight
points with little time remaining in
regulation, the crystal collection
rallied to tie the score at 39-all.
When Randy Johnson fouled out,
the third member of the
Menagerie to do so, they were left
with four players and the Stuffers
prevailed.
The winners were led by Andy
Larson, who scored five of his
game high 21 points in overtime,
while Warren Barber topped the
losers with 14.
The regular season continues in
A league tomorrow while B league
playoffs will commence with
BMOC and the Swedish Fly Girls
the pre-tourney favorites.
and sometimes a part-time third.
She estimated a necessary $6,000
for the year long adventure, giving
her nine months to earn it all.
Working as a full time bus
driver and part time waitress, Sue
spent every waking moment in
preparation for the tour. "All I
did for 9 months," she reflected,
"was live, breathe, and dream of
that trip."
When a spare hour or two
opened up, she picked up some
extra cash via several short-lived
jobs—scrubbing car engines for a
used car lot, working in a toy fac-tory,
baby-sitting, and some tele-phone
jobs.
By Oct. 1, nine months after the
starting line, Sue had earned
$4000. She borrowed the remain-ing
$2000 to complete her goal.
Next, Sue and Lois purchased
an around-the-world ticket
though PanAm, $2776 worth of
travel. Equipped with camping
gear and enthusiasm the girls left
the States Oct. 1, landing in
Panama City.
They originally planned to
This Sunday, at 3 p.m., the
Bethel band will be giving a con-cert
in the gymnasium.
Renditions of masterpieces such
as "Procession of Nobles," by
Rimsky-Korsakov, "God of our
Fathers," by Clark T. Smith,
"The Fanfare Prelude: Oh, How
Shall I Receive Thee," by Dr.
move through South America
then to South Africa, vearing
eastward to Egypt, Jordon, and
Israel, east through Asia and Far
East Islands, Russia, and then
home via Hawaii.
Sue returned home on Feb. 1
after traveling as far as Zambia,
half way up Africa. Lois joined
her missionary parents in Africa.
What happened? "Every-thine"
Sue exclaimed.
"We arrived in Panama City at
9 in the evening and by 9:30 we
were lost. We were organized all
right—organized minus guide
books, language books, or dic-tionary
plus twice the supplies we
needed." The girls quickly
discovered that their trip was go-ing
to be far from a vacation.
Every day provided several
"crazy" experiences. For in-stance,
their visit to Rio, Brazil,
found them rooming in a whore
house because it was the only
place they could afford. All the
hotels charged $50 a night and
most were full. "The women were
some of the kindest people we met
the entire trip," Sue remembered.
Robert Hanson of Concordia Col-lege
at Moorehead and "The New
Dance," by Reigger, will highlight
the program.
This performance will be the
band's last formal concert this
year. There is no admission fee.
The band's pop concert is corn-ing
up on April 27.
Still another incident qualified
them for a part in JAWS II. While
camping on a beach one night they
decided to go for a swim in waters
they'd been told were safe. The
next day they discovered the same
waters had been infested with
sharks.
Leaving their camp ground,
they hitched a ride on a flat-bed
truck carrying a freshly
slaughtered shark still bleeding
profusely from its side.
For several hours, Sue and Lois
sat in pools of shark blood as they
traveled to the next town. They
reached their destination tired,
wet, and thoroughly repulsed.
In Zambia, children with
swollen bellies from malnutrition
and scarred faces from voodoo
customs were familiar sights. Ex-treme
poverty and sickness
plagued the majority of people
they met.
"We've all seen pictures in Na-tional
Geographic and on TV,"
Sue remarked, "but until you hear
smmeellll it, and feel it all around
you, you don't have any idea what
it's like."
Sue considered Africa the
hardest thing she'd ever gone
through. Prejudice dominated the
lives of everyone she met and indi-vidual
rights were virtually non-existent.
Being an American, Sue wanted
to speak out against the injustice
she saw but she was forbidden to
discuss her beliefs.
"Africa took a lot of hot air out
Chorus cont. from page 8
"I think this idea will enhance
the fruit of our ministry," said
Glasow.
Greyhound bus driver George
Blackburn, a former Bethelite,
will be driving the male chorus.
Blackburn has driven other Bethel
choirs on various United States
tours.
"We're looking forward to the
tour. When you get 42 guys
together for a week and a half,
you grow closer and have a lot of
fun," said Hoswell.
The choir plans to record an
of my sails," she said. "Even
though America has many pro-blems,
I will never complain about
my life here again. We have more
than the people there could ever
imagine."
In retrospect, Sue's decided
that her eyes were bigger than her
stomach. She hadn't realized a
year was such a long time.
"After four months of being
weak, hungry and sick every other
day," she said, "I needed a rest."
Sue would like to resume her
trip in a few years starting in Asia
and completing the original
course. She says she wouldn't sug-gest
a trip around the world to
anybody unless they are prepared
to face a great deal of hardship.
"If_ people at Bethel don't
appreciate what they have here,"
she finished, "I invite them to go
to South Africa or South America
for a month to see just how for-tunate
they are."
album later in the year, according
to director Oliver Mogck.
Soloists are Scott Allison, Gary
Homsley, Rick Glasow and Steve
Hoswell. Soren Ryberg is the
piano accompanist and Greg
Johnson is organist.
Sunday, March 11, the male
chorus will perform at White Bear
Baptist Church. Other home con-certs
are April 1 at Spring Lake
Park Baptist Church, April 22 at
Osseo Nazarene Church, April 29
at Cross of Glory Baptist Church
and May 6 at Bloomington Baptist
Church.
Band's formal concert
to feature Reigger
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Led by senior co-captains Greg "Homer" Thom (right) and Dan "Fu" Fauth (not pictured), the
Royals' baseball team has begun preseason drills and anticipates a competitive week training in
Conway, Ark. during spring break. Butchers slay Family for IM title
Captured in one of their more lively moments, members of the champion Butchers celebrate
their victorious season.
Coach Shirley Dawson. "If we a time of 12:38. Karlene Kline
had scored the meet, we would finished directly behind Norberg's
have won by about 20 points." second place finish.
Denise Egge remained unbeaten Both the mile and medley relay
in the mile, and also placed first in teams took second places.
the 880. Lynn Severson took first
in the 176 yard dash and third in
the 60.
Deb Sension won the high jump
and placed second behind Sever-son
in the 176. Joann Griffin cap-tured
seconds in the hurdles and
shot put.
Wendy Norberg set a new
Bethel record in the two-mile with
"I felt good about the meet,
because all of the schools were
comparable to us in their pro-grams,"
said Dawson. "Three of
our people didn't compete, and
they definitely would have placed
at least second and third in their
events."
Gusties defeat Royals
in season finale
by Steve Erickson
Last Friday, the Bethel cagers
were tripped up by Gustavus
69-59, ending the Royals second
season in the MIAC.
In a well played game, Gustavus
held a narrow lead at the half,
35-31. Bethel fought to within two
points with only one minute left in
the game and the Royals had the
ball.
But they turned the ball over
and the Gusties went down and
scored. As Bethel scrambled to
catch up in the waning seconds,
Gustavus took advantage and up-ped
the margin to the final ten-point
difference.
The Gusties' Mark Tiemann led
all scoreres with 22 pts. and added
12 rebounds. Ray Miller topped
the Royals with 21 while Scott
Wilson pulled down 10 rebounds.
Dave Blanchard contributed a
good game, scoring 10 pts. and
adding nine assists while holding
one of Gustavus' top scorers,
John Mattke, to only four pts.
Tom Weko also played well defen-sively.
The Royals hurt themselves at
the free throw line, making only
44 per cent (7 for 16) while
Gustavus shot 73 per cent.
The loss dropped Bethel's
record to 3-15 in conference, 5-21
overall.
A number of new records were
established this season. Single
season and single game assist
records were set by Blanchard.
Miller blocked 59 shots, also a
single season high.
Wilson set records in two cate-gories
just started this year. He
drew the charge 20 times and had
the top defensive rating for the
season with 601 net points.
This season was the first time
that three players scored over 300
pts. Miller fired in 521 (a 20.0
average), Blanchard 366 (14.1),
and Wilson (12.3). Besides Miller,
only Bethel legends Steve Scrog-gins
and Ron Pederson have ever
put in over 500 pts.
Only three players, Tom
Tengwall, Greg Peterson, and Jeff
McCall, graduate so next years
squad looks to be stronger.
Assistant Coach George Palke,
who will be the head coach next
year, is hoping to land some top
big men for the upcoming season.
He has contacted 139 players and
67 of these he is still actively
recruiting.
Out of these 67, ten top players
stand 6'6" or better and are being
heavily recruited by numerous col-leges
in Minnesota. Four have ap-plied
at Bethel but that is little in-dication
whether they will end up
here or not.
"My goal is to contact 150
players by the end of March, hop-ing
to get 10 per cent," said Palke.
"We're trying to recruit good
players that fit into a winning
team atmosphere and will work
hard. They should be good
students, too."
The junior varsity ended their
season at Gustavus, too, losing
80-56. The overall record finished
at 8-9.
Pat Cartier took top honors in
most individual categories. He led
the scoring (13.3), rebounding
(7.8), and field goal percentage
(.513). Day Dye and Phil
Almeroth each scored around 11
pts. per game while Bob Giddings
pulled down 7.4 rebounds per
game. Brian Doten led the team in
assists.
by Carol Madison
The women's track team has
continued its streak of success on
the indoor track as Bethel cap-tured
six first places out of 12
events at the Macalester Invita-tional.
The women also grabbed six
second and two third place
finishes against the host team,
Hamline, Gustavus and Stout
State.
"It was an individual meet, so
no team scores were kept," said
The championship was a classic
game with the two best teams in
the league battling it out. The But-chers
entered the game with a 9-2
record, Family with a sparkling
9-0-2 mark. When all was said and
done, however, the Butchers, on
the strength of Scott Feltman's
goal with six minutes left in the
game, were the new champions.
The team travels to the St. Olaf
Invitational today, with the stif-fest
competition coming from the
host team, University of Min-nesota,
and Mankato State.
"I'm confident we can place
enough people to get fourth or
fifth place," said Dawson.
"Hopefully we can place fourth
and stay on top of the private
schools."
CHAPEL SCHEDULE
Monday Election chapel
Tuesday Dave Bryant
Wednesday Prof. Bill
Smalley
Thursday-Friday Dr. Owen
Gingerich, convocation
The Butchers deserved the win,
taking the play to Family for
much of the game. In fact, only
some errant shots and outstanding
goaltending by Jepsen kept the
margin from being larger.
Family was not without good
scoring chances, however. On one
occasion Mike Kingbird, who
alternated with Paul "Oral"
Roberts in goal, came out of the
net to clear the ball down the ice.
The ball was knocked off his
broom, though, and skittered un-touched
through the crease in
front of the empty net.
Although Feltman's off-balance
rocket that found the up-per
right corner of the goal actual-ly
decided the game, the real dif-ference
may have been in the play
of the girls.
Led by captain Mary Jo Krause
and Robyn Erbst, the Butcher
females constantly frustrated the
Family's high-scoring forwards in
their attempt to organize an offen-sive
attack. In fact, if one were
chosen, this writer's choice for
MVP of the game would be
Robyn Erbst.
For all you autograph seekers
here are the members of the 1979
broomball champions: Andy
Boyer, Chuck Engberg, Robyn
Erbst, Scott Feltman, Earl
Johnson, Linda Johnson, Mike
Kingbird, Mary Jo Krause, Oral
Roberts, Tim Schroeder, DeAnne
Stromwall and Dave Thompson.
IM basketball is closing in on
playoff time. In recent, games,
Probes used a balanced scoring at-tack
and capitalized on some poor
shooting by the East . Coast
Rockies to win the big clash be-tween
those two teams, 50-36. A
big crowd saw a tight first half
that ended with Probes on top
18-15. The second half was a dif-ferent
story as Probes picked up
the pace and won going away.
cont. on page 7
by Rob Haglund
Goalie Paul Jepsen had let in
only two goals all year; Family
had not lost in two years, but
when the final game of the season
was played, the championship
game against the Butchers, their
two year unbeaten string and
broomball domination came to a
shattering end.
Thinclads finish high in individual meet
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Roscoe Howell and Kurt Christenson travelled to North Dakota
to capture the Feb. 26 eclipse on film.
`Coming down your way'
KABY males waves again
Vol. 54 No. 17 Bethel College St. Paul MN March 9, 1979
German suspension defeated, faculty rejects recommendations
by Paul A. Olsen
The faculty voted down a pro-posal
on Tuesday that would have
indefinitely suspended 300- and
400-level German courses, as well
as the offering of a German con-centration.
The controversial issue trans-formed
the usually docile faculty
meeting into a lively debate. It
was, according to Lynn Fauth,
"an old-fashioned faculty meet-ing."
Declining student interest preci-pitated
the proposal from the
dean's office. According to Dean
Brushaber, it is a common
priniciple in higher education to
closely examine any class with less
than 10 enrolled.
Dean Jessup said, "the essential
critierion in evaluating a class of-fering
is whether the students are
responding to it." Jessup said it is
bad stewardship of Bethel's funds
to continue a course with as small
a number of students as German
has had in the past.
The Academic Policies Com-mittee
maintained that since
enrollments have been low across
time and across the department
and since there has been a dearth
of graduates in German (three in
the last four years), there was not
enough demand to make a Ger-man
concentrtion economically
feasible.
The measure to suspend origi-nated
in the .dean's office and
received the support of the APC,
the department of languages and
literature, and Dr. Engebretsen,
teacher of German.
Because the enrollment in
upper-level German is low, and
because the present budget must
be cut by $100,000, it was not
possible to hire additional help .
by Mark Rentz
"Bethel College and Seminary
is worth $26,349,100. Personal
property (desks, chairs,
refrigerators, etc.) are valued at
$5,759,055," said Paul Drake,
direCtor of auxilary affairs.
This year's insurance premium
(for fire and liability alone) rose to
$63,000, which is $21,000 more
than last year.
The increase is due mainly to
the building additions. The high
premium comes with a $10,000
deductable per building.
Paul Drake explained that if a
townhouse, for example, had roof
leakage, Bethel would have to pay
for the first $10,000 of damage
regardless of whether or not the
damage exceeded the deductable
amount.
Bethel's liability insurance is
only for individuals outside of
Bethel. Bethel students are
covered by their own insurance, or
parents' insurance, and by a sup-plementary
medical plan provided
by Bethel for whatever the stu-dent's
own insurance does not
cover.
The college and seminary, the
buildings still being used on OC,
and FT are insured in various
Engebretsen felt that one per-son
cannot possibly offer a quality
program. Therefore, he said it
would be better to cut back on the
program rather than offer an in-ferior
one.
The APC concurred with his
evaluation and made the recom-mendation
to drop the concentra-tion
after lengthy discussion in an
open hearing on Feb. 27.
, Brushaber said he is committed
to language learning, but he has to
be realistic.
Regarding the question as to
whether a liberal arts college
should challenge students or
follow the flow of student de-mand,
Brushaber said the college
must serve the students and res-pond
to their needs and interests.
He did not see the dropping of
third- and fourth-year German as
erosion of the quality of education
at Bethel.
Brushaber said the money saved
would be used to improve the
Spanish and French programs,
which have strong enrollments,
and to finance the proposed
beginning Swedish courses.
Because the German courses
were not dropped and the money
was not saved, the addition of
Swedish will probably not, be im-plemented
until fall, 1980, depen-ding
on the Board of Regent's
decision.
The faculty decided that it
needed to give better support to
the German program and will
form an ad hoc committee to
work with Engebretsen.
In other business, the faculty
adopted the Random House style
guide as a standard for writing at
Bethel, approved the addition of
beginning Swedish, and added a
requirement for graduation in
which no one would recieve a
ways, and with different pre-miums.
FT is insured exclusively by
Continental Casualty, which
covered FT before Bethel bought
the apartment complex. The
premium of FT is $3,861.
Federal Insurance Co. insures
Bethel against fire and liability.
Boilers are insured with the Hart-ford
Co. Bethel's automobiles are
covered, as well as a workman's
compensation plan, by different
insurance agencies respectively.
Theft is not covered in the pre-sent
insurance policy on personal
items. However, all musical in-struments,
all audio visual equip-ment,
and ski equipment are in-sured.
Audio visual equipment is in-sured
collectively at $180,000.
Musical instruments are worth
$75,000.
The library building, complex
E, is valued at $4,100,000. The
equipment and personal property
in the library complex, including
the dining hall beneath it, are
valued at $2,700,000.
"Insurance is to cover
catastrophe, just in case. It's too
bad that we have to have it ," said
Paul Drake, "but that's the way it
is."
degree without taking at least 15
courses above the 100-level.
These three recommendations
from the APC were passed
unanimously. Five teachers,
however, requested to adress the
German issue.
John Piper argued that drop-ping
German would "signal the
capitulation of the liberal arts vi-sion."
Don Postema echoed Piper's
message and added that dropping
a course because of low enroll-ment
is an ad hoc justification and
by David Shelley
"It was just one, of those awe-inspiring
experiences in which all
we could say was, 'Go, God!"
In this way Barry "Roscoe"
Howell, former Bethel student,
described last week's total eclipse
which he journeyed to view, along
with Kurt Christenson, junior,
and Bethel professors Paul Taver-nier
and Craig Schmidt of the
chemistry department and R.A.
Carlsen of the physics depart-ment.
KABY will be back on the air
on a daily basis, starting on Mon-day,
March 12, at 6 a.m. on 560
AM radio.
• The format of KABY will in-clude
"contemporary Christian
easy rock format," according to
John Freeburg, program director
and operations manager.
The format will include news
broadcasts, including ABC news,
music by various Christian enter-tainers
and other programs.
Bob Spon will head the staff of
not justification based on principle
or theory.
Wayne Grudem said that Bethel
should not only be concerned with
the academic excellence of the
courses it offers but. also with the
academic excellence of its cur-riculum.
He said a liberal arts col-lege
could not be considered com-petant
without offering a German
concentration.
Don Larson appealed to a dif-ferent
concern. He said he was
afraid of endowing the APC with
Leaving on Saturday, Feb. 24,
the group had to drive 101/2 hours
to Minot, N.D. to see the eclipse
in totality.
Schmidt said the idea for the
trip came up last summer when he
was teaching astronomy and
Howell and Christenson were
photographing through his tele-scope.
Howell works for Brown
Photo and he and Christenson do
wedding photography.
Schmidt suggested that they get
together to shoot the eclipse, and
23 as general manager. Duey
Pearson will act as assistant pro-gram
director, Stu Soneson as
news director, and Paul Johnson
as sports director.
Janet Brown will be sales
manager, Sue Stone is in charge of
public relations and John Wood-side
will be chief engineer.
KABY will be transmitted on
new campus only. When KABY is
not on the air, WLOL FM will be
heard on 560 AM, so the trans-mitters
will be transmiting 24
hours a day.
the power to make such decisions
concerning curriculum. He said it
would "establish a precedent that
we (the faculty) would regret."
Rune Engebretsen then thanked
the faculty for its support, but
said the hard facts of the
economics cause him to have mix-ed
emotions on the issue. He said
though language belongs in a
liberal arts curriculum, the pro-gram
was not functioning proper-ly.
Consequently, Engebretsen
supported the proposal. n
they were joined by Schmidt's
wife, Carlsen, Tavernier and his
two children.
Monday morning the group set
up its equipment at about 9:30, an
hour before totality. "Minot is
kind of in a valley, so we went up
on a hill and set up in a church
parking lot," Schmidt said.
"As the eclipse time grew closer
everything began to look silvery.
The snow was more silvery than
white," Schmidt said.
"It wasn't like a hazy day or a
sunset," Howell added. "It gets
darker, but the sun is still shining
so you still see shadows and con-trast.
It has an eerie, mystical ap-pearance."
"It never did get as dark as I ex-pected,"
Schmidt said. "But we
saw some stars and planets that
you can't normally see because of
the sun. We saw Venus.
"I really wanted to see Mercury
because I hadn't seen it before,"
he said, "but I was so caught up in
the eclipse that I forgot to look."
Howell noted, "You hear
stories about how battles stopped
because an eclipse occurred, and if
you saw it you'd understand why.
It's a very spiritually moving ex-perience.
"There is something about wit-nessing
a totally natural event, in
which man had no part, that is
that beautiful," he added.
Schmidt said that the crowd
reflected the mood of the event.
"About 200 people were in that
same area watching," he said.
"As totality occurred everything
just grew silent.
"Totality lasted for about two
minutes and seven seconds," he
continued. "Then as the sun
broke through the other side
everyone cheered and
applauded."
The horizon, said Schmidt,
turned a beautiful pink during
totality. Roscoe, who also took a
movie of the changing horizon,
added that the temperature drop-
Ted about 30 degrees by totality.
Howell said that no filters were
needed to photograph the eclipse
during totality. "Yu have to use
them before and after, though,"
he said. "You know, the sun's
pretty bright."
Insurance policy clarified,
covers catastrophes only
Eclipse expedition moved by sight
Opinion
German saved: good
German as a concentration at Bethel was in danger.
The academic policy committee (APC) had proposed an indefinite
suspension of upper-level classes in German. But in last Tuesday's facul-ty
meeting, several faculty members voiced their concerns about the
damage this action might have on Bethel as a liberal arts college (see story
on page one).
We commend the faculty on its support of an essential part of a
liberal arts education—foreign language, and specifically, German.
We fear that student enrollment and the interest in a given area could
determine whether or not that program would be continued, as was the
case this time.
Discontinuing German as a major could have led Bethel to conform
to the pressures of society.
Bethel would then be leaning away from our ideal of a liberal arts col-lege,
one that should offer a variety of experiences to the student, with
important focus in the humanities and the arts and letters.
It was reassuring to see the faculty members from several different
departments—psychology, Biblical and theological studies, philosophy
and linguistics—support the continuation of the current German pro-gram.
We would encourage students to examine their own definition of a
liberal arts education. Student interest, and unfortunately, numbers, are
what keep a program alive.
If our view of liberal arts does not include foreign language, then we
are in danger of becoming ethnocentric.
As Christians, we should want to learn more about the people in the
world, and one major way to do this is to learn a foreign language.
Foreign language training is also a good preparation for the mission-bound
student.
Although we commend the faculty on its,support of the continuation
of the current German program, we would also caution faculty members
not to simply pay lip service to the German department, but to en-courage
students in their departments to take a foreign language.
Foreign languages would seem most important for musk, Bible and
linguistic majors.
As many faculty members realize, a one-man department is not ideal
for the student or the teacher. Currently, all the foreign languages are
one-man (or woman) departments.
We hope that the administration would look into possibilities of ex-panding
the programs with additional faculty members, regardless of
enrollment figures.
the Soapbox
"Fudge," "Shucks," ideal, not realistic
Dear editor:
I should like to respond to Ran-dy's
(Krussow) letter regarding the
showing of the film, "All the
President's Men."
I share his sense of deep offense
at the language in the film, both
the vulgar and the profane or
blasphemous. Hopefully, all of us
will be ever deeply offended by
dishonor shown to our Father and
to our Savior.
I. should, however, like to
reflect on Randy's conclusion that
the film should not have been
shown in our chapel-gymnasium.
One of the most often repeated
criticisms about Bethel education
is our isolation from the "real
world." The film portrayed not
only the "uglies" of the language
of the worldling but the "uglies"
of his manner of living and think-ing
as well.
What more realistic contact
might one desire with the cynicism
of journalists (redeemed,
perhaps,by their quest for the
truth), or the gross ego-centeredness
of politicians at their
low-level worst?
I heard more than enough rude
"yukking-it-up" by some of our
audience throughout the film.
Could we solemnly contemplate
the meaning of being in the world
but not of it? (Was the film shown
for such reflection or for pure
entertainment?)
As our ears were offended by
blasphemy and vulgarity, did we
think with compassion about the
worldlings depicted in the film
and then transfer that feeling of
compassion to worldlings about
us who know not redemption and
the empowerment of the Spirit?
Or did we long to have the evil
totally removed from our environ-ment
and resolve never to live out-side
the context of a Christian
community or be employed where
ugly people use ugly language?
Were we so offended by the
language of the film that we miss-ed
the uglies being portrayed and
therefore overlooked the possibili-ty
of God using such a film to call
us to a prophetic witness to such a
world.
Offended as I was by vulgarity
and profanity, I reflected back to
some recent chapel an-nouncements.
Were not my ears
and spirit more offended by the
"Have fun in the Son" induce-ment
to spend spring break in
Florida?—"Have fun in the Son"
as I contemplate His suffering,
crucifixion and death for my sins?
Were not my ears and spirit
more offended by the juxtaposi-tion
of two announcements: "We
may have to abandon our support
of several Haitian orphans
because only'ten or twelve signed
up for 'bowl of rice,' " -followed
by "Sign up now for a summer
cruise in the Caribbean area (Haiti
is down there somewhere!) for six
hundred plus dollars?"
Dear editor,
When I read the letter to the
editor (March 2) concerning the
showing of "All the President's
Men" in the Bethel gymnasium, I
became very agitated, for it seems
as if a great number of students
ess
Are my eyes. and spirit more
wounded daily by the filth and
rubbish that is seen in every cor-ridor,
in book cubby-holes, under
furniture, in planters (!) than by
any of the corruption I saw in the
film?
I'm wondering...One expects
better of those who are "in
Christ." Ugly, coarse, offensive
language is part of that "real"
world "out there." Will we have
exposure only to that which por-trays
the "niceness" of our
world?
Sincerely,
Roy Dalton,
Professor of History
Dear editor,
After reading last week's
Clarion and a number of articles
posted on the Beef Board, I have
become disturbed about the way
the Clarion has begun to support
and highlight hypocritical at-titudes
concerning the community
of Bethel and the Student Senate.
cont. on page 3
have come to Bethel to escape the
outside world.
They treat this "Christian cam-pus"
as if it were a monastery. It
hurts me also—as it did Mr.
Krussow—to hear God's name
taken in vain, but that was not the
avowed purpose of the film.
"All the President's Men" was
a re-enactment of the scandal that
shook America and how two
Washington Post reporters un-covered
it. During the process of
investigating Watergate, the
reporters and other characters
used language that is abhorrent to
us, but perfectly natural to them.
I ask you: Wouldn't the movie
lose its magnificent air of reality if
the characters were heafd to say,
"Fudge," "Shucks," or "Gosh
Darn It?"
I think it is a narrow mind that
can't overcome worldly mani-festations,
such as swearing, to see
the true value of the artwork. As
Mr. Krussow freely stated, "I
must admit that it (the movie) was
enlightening..."
Personally, I get upset with peo-ple
who try to enact rules that I
did not pledge to follow. There-fore,
I resent the implication that
the showing and viewing of a
movie such as "All the President 's
Men" is against Christianity.
Walt Disney movies are great,
but not all the time! I prefer a lit-tle
reality in a movie, especially
when it has a meaningful plot and
is as informative as this movie
was.
I would suggest that more
Bethelites get used to reality.
Otherwise, they will be totally un-prepared
for the real world, after
spending four years in the ideal at-mosphere
which Bethel possesses.
Sincerely yours,
Jim Gaylord
Isolation won't help profanity, u
Critics, sarcasm CILLIR101111
not appreciated
Vol. 54 No. 17 March 9, 1979
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Suzi Wells, news editor
Greg Smith, feature editor
Paul Olsen, copy editor
Thangi Chhangte, copy editor
Debbie Bunger, production editor
Phoebe Morgan, production editor
Joy Banta, editorial assistant
Patti Backlund, business manager
Steve Erickson, sports editor
Carol Madison, sports editor
Betty Logan, 'arts editor
Shelly Nielsen, columnist
Rick Chapman columnist
Juan Ramos, cartoonist
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Zeke's Zetesis
Navel fantasies plague sleepy columnist
by Rick Chapman
"Sunday afternoon, a story to
write but no ideas," I groaned to
myself as I sat both bored and
perplexed in the confining at-mosphere
of the LRC.
I thought for a moment,
wishing that my tired mind would
soon explode with insight.
But then a comforting sight
took my attention. I saw a soft
mattress-like foamy green chair ly-ing
vacant against the wall.
It was then that I realized the
true nature of my weariness. In
one quick movement I leapt into
the chair's comforting grasp. I
thrust my head back into an ocean
of soft mush foam and felt my
eyes close effortlessly.
"Heck, I've never let David
down before and I deserve a
break. The worst thing that could
happen...well I might lose my job,
but then I'll be free."
My mind was teased by
rebellious thoughts for a time and
then it relaxed in thoughtlessness.
Indeed it was the Sabbath— what
else could I do but be biblical?
"Wake up Zeke, you have work
to do!"
Critics cont. from page 2
The Senate's iiurpose is to
enable students who choose to
become involved in community
issues that effect the quality of the
student body. Unconstructive
criticism of the Senate and the in-volvement
of the student body
seems to me to be a useless and in-effective
manner of improving our
attitude toward the Senate.
By sarcastically pointing out the
fact the gtudent election is coming
is an irresponsible way of inform-ing
our community of such news.
Our responsibility as communi-ty
members is to support and
challenge the ideals of the Senate.
By propagating mockery and
negative attitudes toward the
Senate and the community it
seems to me to hinder the hope
that things can be better.
As Christians we all have the
freedom to support and be involv-ed
in the community. We also
have the choice to sit back and be
an "armchair" critic.
To those who criticize our
apathy and ineffectiveness of the
community, please be responsible
enough not to judge and condemn
unless you are willing to get out of
your chair and try to change
things you deem appropriate.
Sincerely,
Daniel Lancette
Immediately after hearing this
strange and disturbing voice, I
sensed the shaking of a slight
earthquake. "Who are you?"
"I'm your green mattress you
dummy. Now you better start
writing!"
"Now, forget it. I'm too tired
and I'm dry of ideas."
"C'mon, women would make a
great topic."
"Impossible—that's too con-fusing
and it would take many col-umns
to complete."
"Please do it anyway, the sub-ject
makes me sputter and
cough...sometimes I roll over on
my side and I lose control, and my
heart beats so wildly that it all but
tears gaping holes in my foam..."
"Calm down you old bag! I'm
crazy enough just believing I can
talk with you. At least give me an
idea now that you have awakened
me."
"Hmmm...how about a story
called 'Great Navel Battles of Our
Time.' "
"Everyone is thinking about
Spring Break and no one wants to
read history."
"But you've got the wrong
idea! I mean the dynamics of "in-nies"
and "outies"...Florida...
Daytona...bare bellies...Sunkist
oranges, and navels galore!"
"Talk about navel battles;
"Midway" will have a whole new
meaning!"
"Maybe you'll start an exciting
Dear editor,
The Bethel Student Senate
sponsored five senators to go to
the national convention of the
American Association of Evan-gelical
Students in Orlando, Fl.
These five senate representatives,
Tannie Woods, Jim Torgerson,
Caryl Brown, Phil Thompson,
and Cheryl Thomas, will be
representing the beliefs and views
of the Bethel community.
But along with the represent-ation
that the student body re-ceives,
the student body will also
gain important information on
problems that Bethel faces right
now. Through research, our
representatives can put together a
list of alternatives that Bethel can
and navel fad. We'll be singing
"How deep is your navel?" and
reading such works as Harold Lint
Sell's "Battle of the Navels."
Philosophers might even con-template
the ideal form of navel"
"I'm sorry but I think I must
veto that one as well. It'd never
get me the Pulitzer Prize..."
"But it could earn you the
honorable commendation..."
"Yes?"
"A greenie weenie from the
Wittenburg Door!"
"Thanks for your profound in-spiration"
I muttered sarcastical-ly.
I threw my head back again
and closed my eyelids. My mind
was still in oblivion. I wrestled
with its emptiness, but only
became more frustrated, and so I
slept again.
When I woke from my nap I
looked at my watch to see how
much time remained. "I'm in ter-rible
shape," I mused. "No ideas
for a story and now I'm talking to
green chairs in the LRC!"
Right then the explosion went
off and I began to write,
"nominees for the green dog at
Bethel College:"
Those who ask "Am I really an
air head?"
Those who "borrow" because
"we have all things in common."
Those who criticize everything
but never solve anything.
Those who fall asleep while
writing columns.
Those who go to Florida for
initiate, as a whole, to solves areas
that are not working up to par.
You might say that we are learn-ing
from others' mistakes. This is
a major attribute of the AAES
program.
But yet there is another at-tribute
of having representatives
at the national convention. We
can learn of programs that other
evangelical colleges have in-stituted
and start them at Bethel to
better serve the student body. The
Chautauqua Free University Pro-gram
and the Student Directory
are two prime examples of the
benefits that AAES has, for it was
at last year's convention that
Bethel learned of these programs
through the AAES data bank.
break but leave their faith in Min-nesota.
Those who scribble pseudo-intellectualisms
on the bathroom
stalls.
Those who always sign up for
the prayer chapel, but never come.
Those who immediately deposit
flyers on world hunger in the trash
and scowl "I'm tired of junk
mail!"
Those who put $2.50 worth of
yogurt in a 40 cent cup.
I hurried up to the office, paper
in hand. When I arrived I flung
open the door. They were waiting.
"What's this one about?"
"Nothing special, just a sleepy
To the editor:
Rob Haglund's elaboration in
IM out of bounds has raised the
appeal of your IM coverage to a
readable level, but we have a sug-gestion:
It is far more interesting to read
about unusual events than or-dinary
ones. For example, the last
colurim mentioned that B-league
team Go-for-Baroque was
defeated (as usual) rather soundly.
That's not news. That's as com-mon
as a progress report on the
new dorms. The real news was we
won by three points in overtime
the previous Tuesday.
columnist who carries on con-versation
with foam green
chairs."
They all chuckled simultaneous-ly,
"You've been dreaming. Let's
see it."
How right they were. I quickly
turned and walked out. Even if I
did get the coveted green one I
might not lose my job after all.
And one more note. Baroque
music was from about 1600 to
1750, certainly not to be confused
with anything medieval. Ap-parently
Mr. Haglund spends
more time on the basketball court
than he does choosing his ter-minology
(with all due respect to
the IM reporter).
Don't print boring stuff about a
team that misses almost every time
it Schutz. And if you can't Handel
that don't expect us to take it
Bach.
With tongue in cheek,
Go-for-Baroque
R.A. Carlsen, Roscoe Howell, Kurt Christenson, Craig Schmidt
and Paul Tavernier set up in Minot, N.D. to watch the eclipse
Students to attend AAES (story on page 1).
togain educational insights Haglund's IM writing lacking,
Go-for-Baroque team claims
We only hope that this year's
convention will bring forth the
results that it has in the past, for
Bethel's involvement in this
worthwhile organization has paid
off in the past. We, along with the
rest of the senate, look forward to
the report that these Bethel
representatives have to give the
student body.
Sincerely,
Steven Hoswell,
Susan E. Stone
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SPAN offers intensive study abroad, opportunities
by Betty Logan
Applications for summer, 1980
SPAN studies have just come out.
This year SPAN offers students
an opportunity to spend two mon-ths
in Hungary, Bolivia, Malta, or
France.
SPAN, which stands for Stu-dent
Project for Amity Among
Nations, is a unique academic
program which gives students a
chance to live in another country
and work on a study project of
their choice.
Although only two months are
spent in the foreign nation, the
SPAN program runs for two
years.
For one year prior to traveling
to the chosen country, students
prepare with studies of the nation,
and in many cases, language
study. The year following the
summer experienc is when
SPANers work the promotional
end of SPAN by speaking to
various groups and assisting new
members.
The project a student chooses is
wide open to personal preference
and innovations. The student
develops his project during his
year of preparation and arranges
for the contacts or data he will
need to work with, once in the na-tion.
Almost any imaginable field of
study can be incorporated into the
SPAN program. The project ex-perience
culminates in a major
paper written after returning
home.
With one year of preparation,
which often includes language
study, SPAN is a very well
organized program which pro-vides
an intensive study experience
of another country.
"It is probably the most solid
academically of the international
programs we have available," says
Dr. Phil Carlson, Bethel's SPAN
coordinator.
For all the time and travel in-volved
in SPAN summers, the ex-penses
are quite reasonable. Of
the four programs offered in
1980, the most expensive runs
$1,500 maximum, while the least
expensive program is only $800.
Credit for classes and the pro-ject
is given through the Univer-sity
of Minnesota. Credit costs are
$240 (based on 1979 tuition costs),
which transfer to Bethel as two to
four credits, depending on the
amount of language classes taken
in preparation.
Scholarships and loans are
available to students with finan-cial
need.
Scholarships are based on the
individuals realistic financial
need, and are offered up to the
amount of round-trip transporta-tion.
Loans are available for the
in-country expenses, with a max-imum
of $300 offered.
While in the country, each stu-dent
is allowed to travel freely, in
groups or alone, to work on his
project. The accompanying pro-fessor
usually stays in a central
locale to coordinate students'
travel and study, and to be a
resource for the students.
Each professor leading a SPAN
group has lived or studied in the
country he takes the group to. Dr.
Art Lewis, professor of Old Testa-ment,
led a SPAN group to Por-tugal,
where he was in missions
work several years ago.
Bethel is one of the 14 colleges
which belong to SPAN. Dr.
Carlson urges students to take ad-vantage
of the program, and to
by Steve Hoswell
and Sue Stone
Why are we running for these
positions?
We feel that the experience we
both have on Senate and student
faculty committees, which is ex-tensive,
has given us a broad and
deep understanding of the
mechanics of the Student Senate.
It is from this understanding
that effective representation can
take place.
We believe there is no substitute
for experience in such important
offices: the positions of represent-ing
the student body to various
groups, organizations, and in-dividuals.
But we feel that the need for en-thusiasm
is just as great as exper-ience.
Our enthusiasm is evident
in our attitude toward and our
participation in Senate.
Our record on legislation and
the way we have voted for student
services is open for the student
body to see. We encourage
students to compare: compare ef-fectiveness
of all the candidates.
What are the major issues and
what are our goals?
One area we feel is a major issue
is that of the bookstore's buy-back
policy at the end of each
semester.
We have done some extensive
research and we propose a pro-gram
for a student-run buy-back
program in which students sell
their used text books to other
students directly.
apply early because the programs
are almost always full by applica-tion
deadlines.
Applications for the 1980
SPAN program are now available,
offering students the opportunity
to study in Bolivia, Hungary,
Malta, or France. See Dr. Phil
Carlson, in AC 201 for informa-tion
and applications.
This would be most profitable
for the student selling the text
books, and the buyer would get a
better price than he is using the
present system.
This system has been successful
at Taylor Unversity and Norman-dale
College, two colleges that we
have corresponded with in
developing this plan.
We believe that Senate can help
finance improvement of in-tramural
sports equipment. We
would push for funding of new
equipment to replace worn out or
out-dated equipment, such as
basketballs, volleyballs, and rac-quetballs.
We would check into the feasi-bility
of buying equipment such as
downhill skis and other winter
sports gear. We would work di-rectly
with the IM staff to deter-mine
the exact need.
We are avid supporters of the
reinstatement of Bethel's radio
station, KABY. Through legisla-tion
and personal commitment,
we have shown our support and
will continue to work with the
staff and advisors to make KABY
a success.
Other areas of concern include
a student directory (like the recent
one this year) to be included in the
_Roster, and a security system in
the library to help insure less
theft.
cont. on page 5
Hoswell, Stone state
platform for elections
Tumbler Keith Johnson (upper right) will star in "Moods" at 8 tonight in the gymnasium. Kurt
Pegors (left) is running lights for the production. Visiting astronomy prof to lecture on
aotdination convetsation life on other worlds, end of universe
Match promise "Moods," music, fools' party
by Rob and Cheryl
Can you believe it?! Next week
at this time, spring break will be
upon us! But, to keep you enter-tained
until then...
Tonight, "MOODS" will be
presented in the gym. It will be a
great evening of song and dance,
gymnastics, music from "The
Wiz," and drama, integrated into
a show you won't want to miss.
"MOODS" is an annual tradition
at Bethel and this year's produc-tion
promises to be one of the best
ever.
Tomorrow night, we're invited
to a coffeehouse at Northwestern.
It lasts from 7 - 10 p.m. in the
Nazareth Chapel. There will be
refreshments (peanuts, popcorn,
etc.) and music. It's a good chance
to meet some new people, visit
with friends, take a study break,
or whatever. Let's show them we
appreciate their invitation by hav-ing
a big turnout!
Last, but certainly not least for
this month will be our April
Fool's Party on the 30th. If you
like carnivals, prizes, food,
games, and fun, you'll love our
party. And you may be in for
some surprises!! Look for more
info after Spring Break.
Whether you're traveling to
Florida or Colorado or South St.
Paul, have a great time over break
and God be with you!!
Dr. Owen J. Gingerich, distin-guished
professor of astronomy
and of the history of science at
Harvard University and
astrophysicist of the Smithsonian
Observatory in Cambridge,
Mass., will speak in convocation
next Thursday and Friday, March
15 and 16.
In his Thursday lecture—"Will
the Universe end with a Bang or a
Whimper?"—Professor
Gingerich will expound theories of
galaxies continuing their headlong
dash forever or slowing to a stop
and retreating into a final fiery
cataclysm.
At 7:30 p.m. Thursday he will
speak on "Copernicus, Tycho,
and Master Witt: A Scholarly
Detective Story," giving a new
version of the early reception of
Copernican astronomy, relating
the demise of crystalline celestial
spheres to a new awareness of
physical reasoning through the
work of Tycho, Kepler, and the
mysterious Paul Wittich in the
16th century astronomical scene.
Friday, Gingerich will discuss
"Is there Life on Other Worlds?"
—reviewing the requirements for
habitable environments and
mechanism for life beyond the
earth.
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Becky and Scott voice goals
by Scott Johnson
and Becky Dye
After reviewing the constitu-tional
requirements of the
Association President and Vice
President, we think the positions
demand enthusiasm and innova-tion
- something we can offer.
The President must provide a
dynamic approach to com-municating
student opinion and
proposals to the Bethel ad-ministration
and Board of
Regents.
It is also his duty to inform
students as to proposed admini-strative
policies and decisions.
The President ,executes all
Senate legislation; he reviews and
appoints students to student/-
faculty committees and selects the
Association's treasurer, secretary
and Campus Coordinators.
The Vice President presides
over the Association's Senate. He
is the chairperson responsible for
the functioning of the Com-munications
Board. The Vice
President supportively im-plements
the team's proposed
platform.
We feel qualified to effectively
assume these positions; qualified
not because of our Senate exper-ience,
but rather because of our
creative style of leadership.
If you are impressed by titles of
previously held leadership posi-tions,
we have those too!
What is it that motivates us to
run? It's the challenge of making
Senate a representative, concerned
functioning body. We're excited
about getting you excited. It's the
experience of responsible leader-ship.
The knowledge gained could be
applied to our prospective voca-tions.
An effective team must have
positive, reachable goals which
will benefit student life. We would
like Senate to accomplish three
goals in the next year.
First, we want to serve as an ef-fective
vehicle to communicate be-tween
students and administra-tion.
We must build the credibility of
the Student Senate by being a
responsible, informed voice, "a
voice that listens" and does not
neglect taking action.
To help motivate Senators to be
better representatives of students
we suggest a $100 scholarship be
awarded each semester to one,
chosen by the Senate as being the
Scott Johnson and Becky Dye
most concerned, active Senator.
It is one of the primary func-tions
of the President and Vice
President to motivate the
Senators. We will, therefore, ap-propriate
the scholarships from
our stipends.
We, as an executive staff will
work to develop a student-faculty-administrative
group which will
primarily pool ideas and discuss
tension between the three in-dividual
groups.
This would basically be a
maintenance and exchange group.
Both faculty and administration
have already shown interest in
such a group as this.
Senate and the executive staff
will be greatly encouraged to in-form
students of upcoming ad-ministrative
policy decisions in
order that we organize and present
student opinion before final ac-tion
has been taken.
Our second major goal will be
the implementation of specific
programs designed to better stu-dent
life.
There is presently a need to
research student expenditures out-side
of tuition (ie. bookstore, ex-penses,
food costs, etcetera). We
propose two realistic programs
which will aid the student in these
areas.
First, we have developed a
detailed procedure for a student-run
"book exchange." This pro-gram
could alleviate the money
loss which results by using the
"bookstore exchange service."
The idea is not to encourage
students to sell their books but
rather to provide a reasonable ser-vice
if one decides to do so!
Secondly, we are researching
the possibility of providing a
student-run "food co-op" at our
off-campus housing, (Fountain
Terrace and apartments to be pur-chased
in the near future).
We believe these programs will
convenience and aid students with
their personal expenses.
It is our opinion that no in-dividual
student service should be
engaged in "profit-making."
Especially when that profit is
routed back into the general ex-pense
fund.
For example, the student who
uses the food service regularly
should not be subsidizing general
expenses of the student who does
not use the food service.
Therefore, we see a need to
research all student services and
their financial practices.
The Senate has a working
budget of over $5,000. (after fun-ding
Clarion, Campus Coor-dinators,
KABY, Roster,
Passages, etcetera). We believe
some of this money has been
poorly spent in the past.
Last year approximately 25 per
cent of the working budget was
appropriated to American
Association of Evangelical
Students (AAES) membership
and Convention fees.
One appropriation of $910 was
recently made for two executive
board members and three senators
to attend a convention in Florida.
This was "all-expense" paid by
student funds.
We suggest continued support
of AAES, however, we do not
think it necessary to fully finance
five representatives but one or two
effective representatives.
Without heavy financial in-volvement
in AAES more of the
student money would be freed for
general student use.
To give individual students ac-cess
to these funds we propose
that a "mini-grant" program be
instituted in the budget; small
monetary grants which would be
available to all students.
"Mini-grants" could be alotted
to students seeking financial aid
for research projects, (outside of
class) and creative projects which
will benefit the entire student
body.
These are only a few examples
of how "mini-grants" could be
used.
Another project already im-plemented
to better student life,
but in need of upgrading, is the
Roster.
We suggest quicker editing and
printing, to ensure a more speedy
delivery to the students. This
could be accomplished by issuing
demanding deadlines and specific
quality guarantees.
We also propose the combining
of the Roster and the recent
publication, the student directory.
This would aid and convenience
the student.
Our third major goal is to
educate and provide student
outlets regarding Christian
responsibility outside of Bethel.
We would encourage the
Clarion to deal with Christian
concerns outside of our communi-ty
(i.e. world hunger, human
rights, religious oppression,
etcetera). This would help to make
students aware of Christian con-cerns
around the world.
As an executive board we will
encourage Senators and students
to initiate chapters of major world
organization (i.e. Bread for the
World, Amnesty International,
etcetera) thus becoming active
working groups within Bethel.
We would also initiate and
sponsor programs such as "Vote
`78" to give students the oppor-tunity
to get involved in national
politics decision making.
These three major goals have
resulted from our interaction with
faculty, students and administra-tion.
They are realistic and
positive goals, which will aid
students and make good use of
Senate's potential and their time.
We also feel that since upper-classmen
will be living in town-houses
next year, Senate should
help students voice feelings con-cerning
rules that effect those who
live there.
What changes would we like to
see in Senate next year?
We would like to see a number
of changes in the structure of
Senate. Three areas that we would
like • to see change include the
Public Action Committee (PAC),
elections for transfers, and in-volvement
in the national prayer
breakfast.
Changes of PAC we would like
to implement include concerns for
the less fortunate in the St. Paul
area. PAC has done an admirable
job in its work with the Haitian
orphans and the Filipino or-phanage,
but we feel we can help
in our own area as well.
Suggested areas of service in-clude
food drives, old clothing
collections and a program in
which students may offer various
services (including repair jobs,
garden work, running errands) for
the aged or handicapped.
Fall elections for transfers
would be the only way transfers
could be represented in Senate.
We feel it is important that this
segment of the student body has a
voice in Senate.
Instead of elections for five
freshman senators each fall, we
would propose that four freshmen
and one transfer be elected.
We believe that Bethel can gain
valuable information and educa-tion
in involvement in the Na-tional
Prayer Breakfast move-ment.
It is probable that Bethel
could obtain speakers for con-vocation
on government that
would benefit the entire student
body.
John W. Ivance, Sr.
John W. Ivance, Jr.
John G. Chisholm
Russel Akre
Patrick J. Repp
It is important that we interact
with fellow Christian evangelicals
that attend not only Christian col-leges
but also those in state
schools across the U.S.
What experience qualifies us for
these positions?
Steven has served full terms as
freshman senator and sophomore
senator, and is currently serving
assenator at large.
He has served as the rules and
finance committee chairman and
parliamentarian. He has served on
the public relations committee and
has also been a member of PAC.
• Steve has been a member of the
communications board, the
judiciary committee, chapel and
spiritual life committee and the
college relations committee.
Along with these services at
Bethel, Steve has also been involv-ed
in the Baptist General Con-ference.
He has served as presi-dent
of the Rocky Mountain
District CYF and was also the act-ing
secretary, of the president's
meeting held during Founder's
Week of 1976.
Other Bethel activities include
his role as business manager of
male chorus this year.
Sue has served two full terms as
freshman senator and sophomore
senator.
After serving on the special pro-jects
committee her freshman
year, she was appointed to be
chairperson of the special projects
committee. She has also been a
member of the PAC.
Sue has served the past two
years on the Bethel on-site com-mittee
and is also on the housing
committee. She has been a
representative to the American
Association of Evangelical
Students (AAES).
page 5
TWIN CITIES
EVENTS CALENDAR
Theatre:
March 9-31 USA
Actors Theatre of St. Paul
March 12-14
Fionnula Flanagan as "James Joyce's
Women" Guthrie
March 16-18 The Runner Stumbles
Theatre in the Round
Exhibits:
Continuing through
March 10 Cornett/Luckman/Milder
Art Latitude Gallery
Continuing through
March 11 American Photography Since 1960
Walker Art Center
Music/Dance:
March 9
March 10
March 16
The Passion According to St. Matthew
Minnesota Opera Company
O'Shaughnessy Auditorium, St. Cathrine
Ameling/Davis
Dvorak, Berlioz, Lambrecht, Haydn
O'Shaughnessy Auditorium, St. Cathrine
Russian Festival
Northrop Dance Season
Northrop Auditorium
Gallery shows art
painted by Rudquist
Painter/printer Jerry Rudquist, professor of art at Macalester, is displaying his work in the
Bethel gallery during March.
by Terri Sue Hanson
Merold Westphal, in a chapel
address on Feb. 21, spoke about
"legal evil." The "legal evil" as
he saw it was found in the interna-tional
trade systems. It was the
system (free trade) that cheated
out poor countries and made the
rich countries richer. So, in effect,
the evil was legal.
Gerald Brock, associate pro-fessor
of economics, gave the
Clarion an economist's reaction to
the assertion. Basically, Brock
said he had two problems with
Westphal's argument.
"First of all," he said, "the
concept of evil needs to have a
clear and precise definition when
it is applied to anything outside of
the biblical framework. It was dif-ficult
for me to understand in
what sense the system was evil. I
do not disagree that there may be
evil within the system, but I want
to know just exactly what con_ -
cepts are evil."
by Becky Miller
A spring flood is coming soon,
only it's not an ordinary spring
flood. The "Spring Flood In-dividual
Events Tournament" will
be held at Mankato University
March 9 and 10. Bethel will ten-tatively
be sending four par-ticipators,
Ira King, Pam
Linamen, Peter Nelson, and
Jolene Brask.
"I really enjoy the fellowship
on the way to the tour-naments—
it's a blast," said
sophomore Pam Linamen. Pam
has attended every individual
events tournament held during the
last seven months. She is planning
"Secondly," Brock continued,
"Westphal asserted that the terms
of trade tend to move against the
less developed countries. This is
not entirely true. Raw materials
fluctuate in price extensively. The
prices rise or decline with regard
to manufactured goods. Westphal
said that it is because of evil con-trol
that the price of raw materials
is falling. Actually, however, the
prices don't decline at all over a
long period of time."
Westphal asserted that the
international trade system is evil
because it takes food from a less
developed country and gives it to a
more developed country.
Brock responded by saying, "Is
that evil? The less developed
countries have the opportunity
not to trade. The undeveloped
countries must see some gain from
trading, or they wouldn't partic-ipate.
"No one is forcing them to
trade, they do it willingly. If these
countries see some benefit from
on entering three of the twelve
events offered.
Pam has placed third in
rhetorical criticism and has also
made finals a few times.
She added that being in the
various speech tournaments over
the past year has expanded her
thinking about other people and
their way of doing something in a
certain event.
There is one more upcoming
event designed eNclusively for the
Bethel community. The date for
the All Bethel Speech Tournament
has been set for April 10. See Rod
Broding from the speech-com-munications
department for
details.
by Hellen Manning
Jerry Rudquist, painter/print-er,
is now exhibiting his work at
the Fine Arts Gallery. Currently,
Rudquist is professor of art at
Macalester.
"Rudquist's work demonstrates
humor and majesty," said Dale
Johnson, associate professor of
art. "His painting," Johnson con-tinued,
"displays a type of inner
light."
"He gets you thinking about
spatial relationships," Johnson
said. "And his color orchestration
quality is important in translating
the drawing to the painting."
All of the works in the gallery
are dimensionally small with the
exception of "Green Valley Win-dow,"
which is on loan from Hen-nepin
County Medical Center.
simplistic solution. What our
system lacks is Christian com-passion.
"We should see the wealth of
the U.S. as a comparatively recent
phenomenon," said Brock, "back
200 years ago Europe, the U.S.
and Japan were poor. The world
at large was poor. The thing is, the
U.S. and other developed coun-tries
have pulled out of the pover-ty.
"The poor countries aren't get-ting
poorer. Instead, some poor
countries, like the U.S., have
become rich. Because of that," he
continued, "there is extreme un-equality."
"We are indebted to Suzanne
Kohn for collecting the pieces for
the exhibit," said Johnson. As his
dealer, Kohn was responsible for
securing the works for the exhibit.
Rudquist has both a B.F.A. and
a M.F.A. in painting. In addition
to his renown as a painter, he is
nationally acclaimed for his color
lithographic prints.
Stewart Luckman, associate
professor of art and department
chairman, studied with Rudquist
at Macalester. Johnson was
previously acquainted with Rud-quist
from working in an adjoin-ing
studio with him.
Rudquist has had major one-man
exhibitiods at both the Min-neapolis
Institute of Arts and the
Walker Art Center. His painting
has been influential to artists in
the American midwest .
Rudquist's paintings will be at
Bethel during March. Students are
encouraged to visit the gallery be-tween
8 a.m. and 10 p.m., Mon-day
through Friday.
Male Chorus
journeys east
for spring tour
by Patti Backlund
With one suitcase apiece, 42
male chorus members will prepare
to board an eastbound bus for
their annual tour, March 16
through 27.
The tour will consist of 15 con-certs
in Wisconsin, Illinois, In-diana,
Ohio, New York, Penn-sylvania
and Iowa. The chorus
will travel during the day and give
concerts each night. Their first
Sunday will be extra busy as they
give three separate concerts in the
Chicago area.
The program includes a variety
of music including sacred classics,
hymn arrangements and negro
spirituals. Selections include
Brahms' "Psalm 13 (Opus 27),"
"I Hear a Voice A-Prayin" and
"Ev'rytime I Feel the Spirit."
"If My People," a song per-formed
for four consecutive
years, will also be included, at the
members' request.
Each night of the tour, the male
chorus members stay in homes,
arranged through the churches
they visit.
"The main emphasis on our
ministry is the outreach and
fellowship we have with the peo-ple
we meet," said choir member
Steve Hoswell.
Rick Glasow, male chorus
chaplain, is organizing a prayer re-quest
calendar, enabling the
chorus members to remember the
needs of the people they come in
contact with. A correspondence
schedule will be set up to continue
prayer relationships.
cont. on page 7
the trade then we need some
definition of why it is evil to con-tinue."
Brock did not maintain that
everything was fine with the inter-national
trade system. "The prob-lem
is broader than just the trade
system," he said. "The total
worldwide distribution of income
is unequal, and a free market
(such as ours) will not equalize it.
"What we need," he said, "is a
welfare system between countries.
There should be more redistribu-tion
from countries like the U.S.
to those countries with less goods.
In theory that is what should hap-pen,
but practically there is no
Mankato hosts tourney,
four to compete in speech
Brock refutes Westphal's 'legal evil'
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World trek opens eyes to true conditions of poverty
by Phoebe Morgan
"My roomate woke me up one
morning and said, 'Sue, let's go
around the world.' I didn't have
to think for more than a second
before I simply replied, 'O.K.'
"That daywe started to watch a
dream come true." So began a
transcontinental cruise for Sue
deWeerdt and Lois Kruger, two
former Bethel students (1975-77).
Their first step was to buy a
world map and plot their course.
The girls made most of their deci-sions
purely by impulse, picking
countries and cities with the blind-fold
method—closing their eyes
and randomly pointing to places
on the map.
"We didn't know the first thing
about going around the world,"
Sue laughed. "I knew I wanted to
see Bolivia because I liked Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid so
much."
Sue quit school in December,
1977 and started working two jobs
IM cont. from page 8
Omega league also saw some ex-citing
action. In what un-officially
is an Omega league record for
most points scored by two foot-ball
players, Steve Fischer and
Dave Moberg combined for 42
pts. (22 for Steve, 20 for Dave) as
True Grit edged Ad Nauseum
81-47.
The most exciting game of the
week was probably the Soccer
Stuffers' 43-39 OT win over the
Glass Menagerie. Down by eight
points with little time remaining in
regulation, the crystal collection
rallied to tie the score at 39-all.
When Randy Johnson fouled out,
the third member of the
Menagerie to do so, they were left
with four players and the Stuffers
prevailed.
The winners were led by Andy
Larson, who scored five of his
game high 21 points in overtime,
while Warren Barber topped the
losers with 14.
The regular season continues in
A league tomorrow while B league
playoffs will commence with
BMOC and the Swedish Fly Girls
the pre-tourney favorites.
and sometimes a part-time third.
She estimated a necessary $6,000
for the year long adventure, giving
her nine months to earn it all.
Working as a full time bus
driver and part time waitress, Sue
spent every waking moment in
preparation for the tour. "All I
did for 9 months," she reflected,
"was live, breathe, and dream of
that trip."
When a spare hour or two
opened up, she picked up some
extra cash via several short-lived
jobs—scrubbing car engines for a
used car lot, working in a toy fac-tory,
baby-sitting, and some tele-phone
jobs.
By Oct. 1, nine months after the
starting line, Sue had earned
$4000. She borrowed the remain-ing
$2000 to complete her goal.
Next, Sue and Lois purchased
an around-the-world ticket
though PanAm, $2776 worth of
travel. Equipped with camping
gear and enthusiasm the girls left
the States Oct. 1, landing in
Panama City.
They originally planned to
This Sunday, at 3 p.m., the
Bethel band will be giving a con-cert
in the gymnasium.
Renditions of masterpieces such
as "Procession of Nobles," by
Rimsky-Korsakov, "God of our
Fathers," by Clark T. Smith,
"The Fanfare Prelude: Oh, How
Shall I Receive Thee," by Dr.
move through South America
then to South Africa, vearing
eastward to Egypt, Jordon, and
Israel, east through Asia and Far
East Islands, Russia, and then
home via Hawaii.
Sue returned home on Feb. 1
after traveling as far as Zambia,
half way up Africa. Lois joined
her missionary parents in Africa.
What happened? "Every-thine"
Sue exclaimed.
"We arrived in Panama City at
9 in the evening and by 9:30 we
were lost. We were organized all
right—organized minus guide
books, language books, or dic-tionary
plus twice the supplies we
needed." The girls quickly
discovered that their trip was go-ing
to be far from a vacation.
Every day provided several
"crazy" experiences. For in-stance,
their visit to Rio, Brazil,
found them rooming in a whore
house because it was the only
place they could afford. All the
hotels charged $50 a night and
most were full. "The women were
some of the kindest people we met
the entire trip," Sue remembered.
Robert Hanson of Concordia Col-lege
at Moorehead and "The New
Dance," by Reigger, will highlight
the program.
This performance will be the
band's last formal concert this
year. There is no admission fee.
The band's pop concert is corn-ing
up on April 27.
Still another incident qualified
them for a part in JAWS II. While
camping on a beach one night they
decided to go for a swim in waters
they'd been told were safe. The
next day they discovered the same
waters had been infested with
sharks.
Leaving their camp ground,
they hitched a ride on a flat-bed
truck carrying a freshly
slaughtered shark still bleeding
profusely from its side.
For several hours, Sue and Lois
sat in pools of shark blood as they
traveled to the next town. They
reached their destination tired,
wet, and thoroughly repulsed.
In Zambia, children with
swollen bellies from malnutrition
and scarred faces from voodoo
customs were familiar sights. Ex-treme
poverty and sickness
plagued the majority of people
they met.
"We've all seen pictures in Na-tional
Geographic and on TV,"
Sue remarked, "but until you hear
smmeellll it, and feel it all around
you, you don't have any idea what
it's like."
Sue considered Africa the
hardest thing she'd ever gone
through. Prejudice dominated the
lives of everyone she met and indi-vidual
rights were virtually non-existent.
Being an American, Sue wanted
to speak out against the injustice
she saw but she was forbidden to
discuss her beliefs.
"Africa took a lot of hot air out
Chorus cont. from page 8
"I think this idea will enhance
the fruit of our ministry," said
Glasow.
Greyhound bus driver George
Blackburn, a former Bethelite,
will be driving the male chorus.
Blackburn has driven other Bethel
choirs on various United States
tours.
"We're looking forward to the
tour. When you get 42 guys
together for a week and a half,
you grow closer and have a lot of
fun," said Hoswell.
The choir plans to record an
of my sails," she said. "Even
though America has many pro-blems,
I will never complain about
my life here again. We have more
than the people there could ever
imagine."
In retrospect, Sue's decided
that her eyes were bigger than her
stomach. She hadn't realized a
year was such a long time.
"After four months of being
weak, hungry and sick every other
day," she said, "I needed a rest."
Sue would like to resume her
trip in a few years starting in Asia
and completing the original
course. She says she wouldn't sug-gest
a trip around the world to
anybody unless they are prepared
to face a great deal of hardship.
"If_ people at Bethel don't
appreciate what they have here,"
she finished, "I invite them to go
to South Africa or South America
for a month to see just how for-tunate
they are."
album later in the year, according
to director Oliver Mogck.
Soloists are Scott Allison, Gary
Homsley, Rick Glasow and Steve
Hoswell. Soren Ryberg is the
piano accompanist and Greg
Johnson is organist.
Sunday, March 11, the male
chorus will perform at White Bear
Baptist Church. Other home con-certs
are April 1 at Spring Lake
Park Baptist Church, April 22 at
Osseo Nazarene Church, April 29
at Cross of Glory Baptist Church
and May 6 at Bloomington Baptist
Church.
Band's formal concert
to feature Reigger
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Royals' baseball team has begun preseason drills and anticipates a competitive week training in
Conway, Ark. during spring break. Butchers slay Family for IM title
Captured in one of their more lively moments, members of the champion Butchers celebrate
their victorious season.
Coach Shirley Dawson. "If we a time of 12:38. Karlene Kline
had scored the meet, we would finished directly behind Norberg's
have won by about 20 points." second place finish.
Denise Egge remained unbeaten Both the mile and medley relay
in the mile, and also placed first in teams took second places.
the 880. Lynn Severson took first
in the 176 yard dash and third in
the 60.
Deb Sension won the high jump
and placed second behind Sever-son
in the 176. Joann Griffin cap-tured
seconds in the hurdles and
shot put.
Wendy Norberg set a new
Bethel record in the two-mile with
"I felt good about the meet,
because all of the schools were
comparable to us in their pro-grams,"
said Dawson. "Three of
our people didn't compete, and
they definitely would have placed
at least second and third in their
events."
Gusties defeat Royals
in season finale
by Steve Erickson
Last Friday, the Bethel cagers
were tripped up by Gustavus
69-59, ending the Royals second
season in the MIAC.
In a well played game, Gustavus
held a narrow lead at the half,
35-31. Bethel fought to within two
points with only one minute left in
the game and the Royals had the
ball.
But they turned the ball over
and the Gusties went down and
scored. As Bethel scrambled to
catch up in the waning seconds,
Gustavus took advantage and up-ped
the margin to the final ten-point
difference.
The Gusties' Mark Tiemann led
all scoreres with 22 pts. and added
12 rebounds. Ray Miller topped
the Royals with 21 while Scott
Wilson pulled down 10 rebounds.
Dave Blanchard contributed a
good game, scoring 10 pts. and
adding nine assists while holding
one of Gustavus' top scorers,
John Mattke, to only four pts.
Tom Weko also played well defen-sively.
The Royals hurt themselves at
the free throw line, making only
44 per cent (7 for 16) while
Gustavus shot 73 per cent.
The loss dropped Bethel's
record to 3-15 in conference, 5-21
overall.
A number of new records were
established this season. Single
season and single game assist
records were set by Blanchard.
Miller blocked 59 shots, also a
single season high.
Wilson set records in two cate-gories
just started this year. He
drew the charge 20 times and had
the top defensive rating for the
season with 601 net points.
This season was the first time
that three players scored over 300
pts. Miller fired in 521 (a 20.0
average), Blanchard 366 (14.1),
and Wilson (12.3). Besides Miller,
only Bethel legends Steve Scrog-gins
and Ron Pederson have ever
put in over 500 pts.
Only three players, Tom
Tengwall, Greg Peterson, and Jeff
McCall, graduate so next years
squad looks to be stronger.
Assistant Coach George Palke,
who will be the head coach next
year, is hoping to land some top
big men for the upcoming season.
He has contacted 139 players and
67 of these he is still actively
recruiting.
Out of these 67, ten top players
stand 6'6" or better and are being
heavily recruited by numerous col-leges
in Minnesota. Four have ap-plied
at Bethel but that is little in-dication
whether they will end up
here or not.
"My goal is to contact 150
players by the end of March, hop-ing
to get 10 per cent," said Palke.
"We're trying to recruit good
players that fit into a winning
team atmosphere and will work
hard. They should be good
students, too."
The junior varsity ended their
season at Gustavus, too, losing
80-56. The overall record finished
at 8-9.
Pat Cartier took top honors in
most individual categories. He led
the scoring (13.3), rebounding
(7.8), and field goal percentage
(.513). Day Dye and Phil
Almeroth each scored around 11
pts. per game while Bob Giddings
pulled down 7.4 rebounds per
game. Brian Doten led the team in
assists.
by Carol Madison
The women's track team has
continued its streak of success on
the indoor track as Bethel cap-tured
six first places out of 12
events at the Macalester Invita-tional.
The women also grabbed six
second and two third place
finishes against the host team,
Hamline, Gustavus and Stout
State.
"It was an individual meet, so
no team scores were kept," said
The championship was a classic
game with the two best teams in
the league battling it out. The But-chers
entered the game with a 9-2
record, Family with a sparkling
9-0-2 mark. When all was said and
done, however, the Butchers, on
the strength of Scott Feltman's
goal with six minutes left in the
game, were the new champions.
The team travels to the St. Olaf
Invitational today, with the stif-fest
competition coming from the
host team, University of Min-nesota,
and Mankato State.
"I'm confident we can place
enough people to get fourth or
fifth place," said Dawson.
"Hopefully we can place fourth
and stay on top of the private
schools."
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The Butchers deserved the win,
taking the play to Family for
much of the game. In fact, only
some errant shots and outstanding
goaltending by Jepsen kept the
margin from being larger.
Family was not without good
scoring chances, however. On one
occasion Mike Kingbird, who
alternated with Paul "Oral"
Roberts in goal, came out of the
net to clear the ball down the ice.
The ball was knocked off his
broom, though, and skittered un-touched
through the crease in
front of the empty net.
Although Feltman's off-balance
rocket that found the up-per
right corner of the goal actual-ly
decided the game, the real dif-ference
may have been in the play
of the girls.
Led by captain Mary Jo Krause
and Robyn Erbst, the Butcher
females constantly frustrated the
Family's high-scoring forwards in
their attempt to organize an offen-sive
attack. In fact, if one were
chosen, this writer's choice for
MVP of the game would be
Robyn Erbst.
For all you autograph seekers
here are the members of the 1979
broomball champions: Andy
Boyer, Chuck Engberg, Robyn
Erbst, Scott Feltman, Earl
Johnson, Linda Johnson, Mike
Kingbird, Mary Jo Krause, Oral
Roberts, Tim Schroeder, DeAnne
Stromwall and Dave Thompson.
IM basketball is closing in on
playoff time. In recent, games,
Probes used a balanced scoring at-tack
and capitalized on some poor
shooting by the East . Coast
Rockies to win the big clash be-tween
those two teams, 50-36. A
big crowd saw a tight first half
that ended with Probes on top
18-15. The second half was a dif-ferent
story as Probes picked up
the pace and won going away.
cont. on page 7
by Rob Haglund
Goalie Paul Jepsen had let in
only two goals all year; Family
had not lost in two years, but
when the final game of the season
was played, the championship
game against the Butchers, their
two year unbeaten string and
broomball domination came to a
shattering end.
Thinclads finish high in individual meet
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